Senior Platform Engineer - Autonomous Agents, Equity

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 322,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is building a scalable platform to let autonomous agents run safely in enterprise environments across cloud infrastructure. You will design agent blueprints, implement a robust safety harness, and enable multi-agent orchestration with credential management and observability.

The role includes on-call responsibilities to keep the platform healthy and secure. We seek candidates with advanced degrees or equivalent, 12+ years building distributed systems, and hands-on experience deploying

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 12+ years building distributed systems, infrastructure, or developer platforms at scale.
• Hands-on experience building agents on a harness, exposing them as APIs, and shipping them with CI/CD.
• Experience deploying and operating long-running services on container orchestration platforms.
• Experience with messaging, caching, and durable storage as building blocks of scalable systems.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Design agent blueprints with clean interfaces for authorization, sandbox, memory, observability, and skills.
• Build the runtime safety harness: a policy engine with action checks, budgets, circuit breakers, and kill switches.
• Enable organizing agents: skills as first-class units, multi-agent orchestration, and headless long-running agents.
• Broker credentials for multi-agent systems with least-privilege tokens.
• Provide checkpoint and recovery so agents resume after crashes or restarts.
• Instrument observability and evaluation across harnesses and signals; turn insights into improvements.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Long-running services

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

NVIDIA is building a scalable platform to let autonomous agents run safely in enterprise environments across cloud infrastructure. You will design agent blueprints, implement a robust safety harness, and enable multi-agent orchestration with credential management and observability.

The role includes on-call responsibilities to keep the platform healthy and secure. We seek candidates with advanced degrees or equivalent, 12+ years building distributed systems, and hands-on experience deploying