Senior AI Production Tools Engineer (Artists & Pipelines)

Engg; United States; Remote; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and build tools, pipelines, and AI-enabled systems for complex creative production workflows. You’ll connect AI models with DCC apps, APIs, and production infra to support artists, technical artists, designers, and engineers.

A central part is building reliable multi-step agentic workflows that coordinate tools, maintain state, and recover from failures, combining hands-on development with technical leadership for production‑quality software.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience developing production tools and content pipelines.
• 2+ years of technical leadership including guiding architectural decisions and mentoring engineers.
• Strong Python skills and experience with API design, automated testing, debugging, and maintainable code.
• Experience integrating with DCC applications and supporting content workflows from authoring through validation and delivery.
• Experience building multi-step AI workflows that invoke tools or APIs and manage state and retries.
• Experience delivering usable tools for artists and collaborating with creative teams.
• Experience with version control, release management, and production‑critical software.

Responsibilities

• Own tools and pipeline systems from workflow discovery and architecture through implementation, rollout, maintenance, and production support.
• Build agentic workflows that coordinate models, tools, APIs, and services, with context management, state tracking, validation, retries, and failure recovery.
• Develop AI-enabled engineering tools for coding, testing, debugging, codebase analysis, code review, and workflow automation.
• Create DCC integrations, plugins, panels, desktop applications, and services that address the needs of artists and technical artists.
• Build and maintain content pipelines covering authoring, validation, publishing, versioning, asset management, and delivery to rendering or real‑time systems.
• Design software architecture, APIs, and data contracts that support maintainability, performance, and integration across production systems.
• Establish automated testing, agent evaluations, tracing, monitoring, and appropriate access controls to ensure reliable and observable operation.
• Manage packaging, dependencies, compatibility, and releases across supported applications and production environments.
• Partner with users to prioritize improvements, lead technical reviews, mentor engineers, and document systems to support adoption and ongoing maintenance.

Skills

Python

API design

Automation testing

State management

AI workflows

DCC integrations

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or related field

Tools

Git

Perforce

Unreal Engine

Unity

PySide/Qt

Job description

NVIDIA seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and build tools, pipelines, and AI-enabled systems for complex creative production workflows. You’ll connect AI models with DCC apps, APIs, and production infra to support artists, technical artists, designers, and engineers.

A central part is building reliable multi-step agentic workflows that coordinate tools, maintain state, and recover from failures, combining hands-on development with technical leadership for production‑quality software.