Senior System Software Engineer, Workflow Platform & HPC

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking an experienced software engineer for the Engineering Workflow Platform team in Santa Clara, CA. You will design the control plane that turns engineering intent into repeatable workflow stages and manage tooling across builds, artifacts, and validation.

You will partner with chip-design teams and EDA experts to improve observability, diagnose production issues, and migrate legacy workflows without disrupting active projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Production ownership of workflow, build, release, developer-infrastructure, HPC, storage, or engineering-automation systems with multiple stages, dependencies, and generated outputs.
• Strong Linux and POSIX fundamentals spanning files, permissions, symbolic links, processes, environment variables, exit codes, logs, and background jobs.
• Practical programming experience in Python, C++, Perl, or a comparable language, along with shell scripting and familiarity with Make, YAML, JSON, or related infrastructure.
• Experience designing configuration or state models, debugging production failures, and migrating established systems without disrupting active users.

Responsibilities

• Design the control plane that turns engineering intent and layered configuration into repeatable workflow stages, generated artifacts, tool execution, and validation results.
• Diagnose and prevent production failures involving Linux processes, environment setup, exit codes, shared filesystems, schedulers, partial writes, and stale artifacts.
• Modernize established Make, Tcl, Perl, Python, shell, and YAML infrastructure while preserving behavior for active chip projects.
• Partner with chip-design teams, EDA experts, and infrastructure engineers to reproduce failures, deliver compatible migrations, and improve workflow observability.

Skills

Linux fundamentals

Programming in Python/C++/Perl

Shell scripting & Make/YAML/JSON

Config/state modeling

Production debugging

System migrations

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/EE or equivalent

Tools

LSF

Slurm

Grid Engine

NFS

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking an experienced software engineer for the Engineering Workflow Platform team in Santa Clara, CA. You will design the control plane that turns engineering intent into repeatable workflow stages and manage tooling across builds, artifacts, and validation.

You will partner with chip-design teams and EDA experts to improve observability, diagnose production issues, and migrate legacy workflows without disrupting active projects.