Senior Systems Engineer - Agentic AI Platform

NVIDIA AI; Austin (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 431,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a senior architect for agentic AI systems in Austin, TX. You will design scalable, reliable platforms spanning runtimes, inference, and orchestration, and lead cross-functional teams across research, engineering, and infrastructure.

You will tackle large-scale distributed systems, data pipelines, HPC, and GPU-accelerated workloads, requiring deep expertise in software architecture and modern AI fundamentals. Equity and strong growth opportunities accompany the role.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, AI, or a related field with 12+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Strong foundation in modern AI, including LLMs, multimodal models, inference, agentic AI, and evaluation.
• Deep expertise in software architecture, distributed systems, and large-scale systems design.
• Strong hands-on programming skills in Python, C++, Go, Rust, or similar languages, with a track record of building high-quality production software.
• Background building large-scale systems involving distributed execution, data processing/ETL, workflow orchestration, HPC, cloud, or GPU infrastructure.
• Ability to reason across the stack—from AI model behavior and application logic to runtime, compute, and infrastructure.
• Proven ability to take ambiguous, complex technical problems from architecture through implementation and production.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build scalable, reliable systems for agentic AI, spanning agent runtimes, harnesses, inference, evaluation, and orchestration.
• Solve large-scale systems challenges across distributed execution, data/ETL pipelines, HPC, cloud, Kubernetes, and GPU compute environments.
• Optimize systems for reliability, scalability, performance, resource utilization, and developer experience.
• Prototype emerging ideas, write high-quality production code, and provide technical leadership across research, engineering, product, and infrastructure teams.

Skills

Python

C++

Go

Rust

Distributed systems

Large-scale systems

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Linux

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a senior architect for agentic AI systems in Austin, TX. You will design scalable, reliable platforms spanning runtimes, inference, and orchestration, and lead cross-functional teams across research, engineering, and infrastructure.

You will tackle large-scale distributed systems, data pipelines, HPC, and GPU-accelerated workloads, requiring deep expertise in software architecture and modern AI fundamentals. Equity and strong growth opportunities accompany the role.