Senior Cloud Software Engineer, Developer Tools

Location: US, CA, Santa Clara

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build and improve AI Developer Tools connected through web APIs, SDKs, CLIs, and Agents. Apply your expertise with delivering user-focused cloud products that enable both rapid prototyping and the next generation of highly automated AI assisted CUDA development, from coding to profiling and performance fine-tuning.

In this role, you will architect cloud solutions that leverage Nvidia microservices and frameworks as well as ground-breaking AI applications and research to integrate deeply with developers’ work flows, accelerate the full product lifecycle of plan, code, test, debug, profile and fine-tuning.

What youll be doing:

• Work closely with our product and research teams to define feature specifications and build the next generation of AI coding and profiling agents and services.
• Architect, design and develop high-performance and responsive SaaS that improves developers’ workflows with AI, supporting a large number of concurrent developers with high scalability, reliability and cost efficiency.
• Work with other engineering teams to align on corporate infrastructure strategies and help to improve or enhance existing services for both external and internal customers.
• Mentor engineers and review code and design.

What we need to see:

• B.S. (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science with 12+ years of industry experience.
• Experience in large-scale user-facing application development using web/cloud services.
• Experience with full-stack web UI development using React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Familiar with Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, AWS.
• Experience with DevOps including CI/CD, monitoring and alerts.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Strong communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional partners.
• Familiar with building either agent workflow and harness or sandboxing for agent or GPU environment in the cloud.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience writing CUDA code and optimizing CUDA kernels.
• Experience with Kata Container or any other VM-based container runtime.
• GPU profiling, benchmark performance in a consistent and repeatable way.
• Proficiency in Rust.

With competitive salaries and benefits, 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 are enthusiastic about empowering new programmers to excel and experienced accelerated computing users to redefine an industry, this is the role for you!

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD.Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 16, 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.