Senior Platform Engineer – AI-Driven Design Automation

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 311,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer, Design Automation to join a small team that builds and operates the software platform used by chip-design teams to launch, monitor, debug, and improve large-scale design workflows. Our systems coordinate hundreds of thousands of design jobs daily across global datacenters.

You will modernize critical production services, improve reliability and usability of design-flow infrastructure, and turn design execution data into actionable insights for

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including distributed production systems.
• Strong Python and JavaScript/TypeScript development skills for backend services, APIs, and modern web apps.
• Hands-on experience with applied AI using LLMs, RAG, agents, or related tech.
• Understanding of system design, databases, reliability, observability, CI/CD, and Linux.
• Strong technical communication and multi-functional leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build and operate AI-enabled platforms for large-scale VLSI workflows.
• Develop reliable backend services, APIs, data models, event-driven systems, and workflow orchestration.
• Create intuitive web applications for launching, monitoring, debugging, and analyzing design jobs.
• Apply LLMs, RAG, agents, and automation to accelerate debugging, recommendations, and operational support.
• Build telemetry, analytics, and dashboards for workflow health, performance, and quality of results.
• Collaborate with EDA, design methodology, and infrastructure teams to improve productivity and tapeout reliability.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Linux operations

Backend APIs

LLMs

RAG

Agents

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Temporal

Airflow

Argo

Jenkins

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer, Design Automation to join a small team that builds and operates the software platform used by chip-design teams to launch, monitor, debug, and improve large-scale design workflows. Our systems coordinate hundreds of thousands of design jobs daily across global datacenters.

You will modernize critical production services, improve reliability and usability of design-flow infrastructure, and turn design execution data into actionable insights for