Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Systems
NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Systems in Santa Clara, United States. It pays $184k-$288k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on NVIDIA.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Builds AI ●●●●: the job is building AI systems.
- The listed pay starts 10% above the typical software engineer posting on Level.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include RAG, AI agents and AI research.
- Level lists 2,700+ other open roles at NVIDIA.
- The role was posted in the last few days.
AI in this role
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build NeMo Platform, NVIDIA’s product for developing, evaluating, deploying, and operating AI systems at scale. This role will focus on NeMo Evaluator, which helps teams understand whether changes to AI agents are making those agents better. As AI systems become more autonomous and more deeply integrated into real workflows, teams need practical infrastructure for observing behavior, measuring progress, catching regressions, and iterating with confidence.
Our roadmap is increasingly focused on agentic development and automated agent improvement: giving teams the infrastructure they need to compare versions, understand behavior, and make empirically grounded improvements over time.
What you'll be doing:
Design and implement Python-first APIs, SDK workflows, and plugin interfaces for building, measuring, and improving agents across multiple runtimes and product surfaces
Build reusable systems for observing behavior, measuring progress, detecting regressions, and turning runtime evidence into product decisions
Build systems for ingesting, normalizing, validating, and analyzing agent execution data and evaluation datasets
Partner with research, product, platform, and infrastructure teams to integrate agentic capabilities broadly across NVIDIA agent runtimes and developer workflows
Help turn emerging agent development and improvement techniques into reliable, reusable product capabilities
Improve reliability, observability, debuggability, and performance across NeMo Platform, SDKs, plugins, jobs, and developer workflows
Build strong test coverage across unit, integration, E2E, Docker, and Kubernetes workflows
Drive “speed of light” engineering: fast iteration, high ownership, pragmatic decisions, and performance-minded implementation under production constraints
Provide senior technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and ownership of ambiguous cross-component problems
What we need to see:
BS, MS, or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems
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
Experience with distributed systems, cloud-native services, containers, Kubernetes, or job orchestration
Strong understanding of reliability, scalability, security, and performance tradeoffs in production infrastructure
Experience with structured data modeling and validation systems such as Pydantic, typed schemas, event/trace models, or SDK-generated types
Ability to work independently, define technical scope, break down ambiguous problems, and drive work across team boundaries
Clear communication skills and a track record of collaborating with engineering, product, research, or customer-facing teams
Ways to stand out from the crowd:
Experience building, deploying, and iterating on production agentic AI systems where evaluation was used to measure and improve real product outcomes
Experience designing evaluation workflows for heterogeneous agents, including tool-using agents, RAG agents, workflow agents, coding agents, or long-running autonomous systems
Experience integrating evaluation capabilities across multiple products, runtimes, or internal platforms, especially through Python SDKs, plugins, or shared developer tooling
Strong ability to connect technical evaluation work to business outcomes, product quality, user experience, reliability, or operational efficiency
Experience with enterprise AI systems where measurement, regression testing, observability, governance, and continuous improvement are required for production deployment
NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you’re passionate about leading breakthrough AI research and building exceptional teams that shape the future of computing, we want to hear from you.
Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary ranges for this position are:184,000 USD – 287,500 USD for Level 4; and 224,000 USD – 356,500 USD for Level 5.
You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 10, 2026.This posting is for an existing vacancy.
NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.
NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.How we rate this
Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Systems at NVIDIA rates 91 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- $184k
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Questions you could be asked
- How would you design a retrieval step so the model answers from real data instead of guessing?
- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
- Tell me about a research question you investigated. What did you find?
- How would you decide a model or AI system is ready to ship?
- Tell me about a time a model underperformed in production. How did you find out, and what did you change?
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- Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.
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