Senior System Software Engineer - Local AI Automation
NVIDIA is hiring a Senior System Software Engineer - Local AI Automation in Pune, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
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Senior system software engineer building infrastructure and automation for deploying and benchmarking local AI workloads.
The Local AI Automation team is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer passionate about building and maintaining robust system-level software and infrastructure for deploying, benchmarking, and qualifying high-quality AI applications and models. You will collaborate with a team of highly qualified engineers dedicated to creating top-tier infrastructure for Local AI automation. If you have a real passion for building reliable, scalable automation systems in the AI ecosystem, this could be an excellent opportunity for us to work together!
What you'll be doing:
- Design, implement, and maintain robust system software and infrastructure to efficiently run various AI workloads through different inference backends such as Llama.cpp, Ollama, PyTorch, vLLM, WinML, TRT-RTX, and others.
- Scope out system requirements for deploying various AI applications, benchmarks, and models in automation, and develop solutions to measure correctness, functionality, reliability, and overall system performance.
- Develop infrastructure to download AI models from various sources, efficiently manage a local model repository, and create automated synchronization mechanisms to keep the repository up to date.
- Analyze large datasets and system workload metrics, implement data processing infrastructure to transform raw data into actionable information for developers, and design useful visualizations.
- Collaborate with internal Local AI developers to identify and implement system-level instrumentation, diagnostics, and debugging capabilities that help quickly debug and isolate issues.
- Design, implement, and maintain robust infrastructure for automated build, integration, deployment, and qualification across different inference frameworks and environments.
- Understand existing infrastructure and system software architecture, debug issues in current frameworks, identify performance bottlenecks, and devise solutions to enhance system efficiency and scalability.
What we need to see:
- 5+ years of experience with a B.Tech or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong analytical, systems debugging, and problem-solving abilities, with the capacity to multitask effectively in a dynamic environment.
- 5+ years of software development experience with strong programming skills in C/C++, C#, Java, or another systems programming language, along with exposure to at least one scripting language such as Python.
- Experience with system APIs, multithreaded software, process and resource management, debugging, or performance analysis.
- Familiarity with databases and SQL, source control systems, and CI/CD infrastructure such as Git, Perforce, and Jenkins.
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills, enabling effective collaboration with management and engineering teams.
Ways to stand out from the crowd:
- Experience building robust system software, runtime infrastructure, or scalable backend components.
- Experience with system profiling, performance optimization, debugging, and telemetry/observability infrastructure, including analysis of Nsight Systems traces to understand system state and kernel performance.
- Hands-on background with Linux/Windows system programming, Git CI/CD, databases/SQL, Kubernetes, Docker, and observability tools such as Grafana or Kibana.
- Hands-on experience integrating or debugging inference frameworks such as Llama.cpp, Ollama, PyTorch, vLLM, WinML, or TRT-RTX.
- Experience understanding CPU/GPU resource utilization, memory management, concurrency, and performance characteristics of AI workloads.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, we are 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 and, due to unprecedented growth, our exclusive engineering teams are rapidly growing. If you're a creative and autonomous engineer with a real passion for technology, we want to hear from you.
How we rate this
Senior System Software Engineer - Local AI Automation at NVIDIA rates 70 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- $168k
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Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a workflow you automated with AI tools, end to end.
- Tell me about a project where system software was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where automation was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where benchmarking was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where inference engines was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: AI Automation, System Software, Automation, Benchmarking, and Inference Engines. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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