Senior Software Engineer, NeMo Helix Core Platform

NVIDIA; California; On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA in California is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build NeMo Helix, NVIDIA’s open platform for developing, evaluating, deploying, and operating AI systems at scale. You will join the Core team to design an Agentic Execution system that works across local, Kubernetes, Slurm, and on-prem environments, and to extend our plugin architecture with robust APIs, RBAC, and security considerations.

The role requires 10+ years of experience, strong Python skills, and the ability to lead

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems.
• Comfort working in a very fast and ambiguous environment.
• Exceptional communication, both verbal and written—able to discuss architectural RFCs clearly with engineers, product, and marketing teams.
• Strong system design skills with reliability, scalability, security, and performance tradeoffs in production infrastructure.
• Experience with distributed systems, cloud-native services, containers, Kubernetes, and job orchestration.
• Excellent Python engineering skills, including API design, typing, testing, debugging, performance analysis, and maintainable software design.
• Experience designing SDKs, libraries, plugins, CLIs, or other developer-facing interfaces.
• Ability to work independently, define technical scope, break down ambiguous problems, and drive work across team boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Designing an Agentic Execution system that is flexible across environments (local, k8s, Slurm, on prem / air-gapped).
• Provide senior technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and ownership of cross-component problems.
• Building and maintaining Core Platform APIs for running jobs, storing data, entities, secrets, and RBAC and Auth.
• Extending the flexible Plugin Architecture to allow many teams and external customers to add capabilities.
• Building in the open in the OSS repo and maintaining high open-source standards.
• Shipping code rapidly with robust tooling and best practices for agentic workflows.
• Improving reliability, observability, debuggability, and performance across NeMo Helix, SDKs, plugins, jobs, and developer workflows.
• Building strong test coverage across unit, integration, E2E, Docker, and Kubernetes workflows.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

System design

APIs design

Education

BS/MS or equivalent experience in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Job description

NVIDIA in California is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build NeMo Helix, NVIDIA’s open platform for developing, evaluating, deploying, and operating AI systems at scale. You will join the Core team to design an Agentic Execution system that works across local, Kubernetes, Slurm, and on-prem environments, and to extend our plugin architecture with robust APIs, RBAC, and security considerations.

The role requires 10+ years of experience, strong Python skills, and the ability to lead