Location
remote, Santa Clara, CA
Type
Full-time
Posted
11/7/2026
Compensation
$184,000 - $356,500 per year
Job description
The Senior Software Engineer will contribute to the NeMo Platform at NVIDIA, focusing on the NeMo Evaluator to enhance AI agents' performance. This role involves building infrastructure for observing behavior, measuring progress, and improving AI systems. The engineer will work closely with various teams to integrate agentic capabilities and ensure the reliability and performance of the platform. The position emphasizes fast iteration and high ownership in a collaborative environment.
Requirements
- 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, and performance analysis
- 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 or typed schemas
- Ability to work independently and drive work across team boundaries
- Clear communication skills and a track record of collaborating with engineering, product, research, or customer-facing teams
Responsibilities
- Design and implement Python-first APIs, SDK workflows, and plugin interfaces for building and improving agents
- Build reusable systems for observing behavior, measuring progress, and detecting regressions
- Develop systems for ingesting, normalizing, validating, and analyzing agent execution data
- Partner with research, product, platform, and infrastructure teams to integrate capabilities across NVIDIA agent runtimes
- Turn emerging agent development techniques into reliable product capabilities
- Improve reliability, observability, debuggability, and performance across the NeMo Platform
- Build strong test coverage across various workflows including unit, integration, and E2E
- Provide senior technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring
Benefits
- Employees at NVIDIA are often offered comprehensive, day-one benefits—including medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA support, life and disability insurance, an Employee Assistance Program, and a 401(k) with auto-enrollment. Many roles also have generous time off and holidays, donation matching (up to $10,000), and a wide menu of extras like FSAs, commuter benefits, legal and identity-theft protection, pet insurance, and wellness discounts. Optional programs can include student-loan and home-purchase support, plus family care resources and expert medical services.
H-1B filing history
Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026
Filing entity: Nvidia Corporation
As of Aug 23, 2026
Initial approvals
355
FY2026
Approval rate
99.2%
FY2026
LCA certified
7,667
FY2026
Entry-level share
11.9%
FY2026
Initial approvals YoY
-37%
Trend
LCA certified YoY
-83%
Trend
Initial approvals by fiscal year
Approval rate by fiscal year
Continuing vs initial approvals
LCA certified positions by quarter
LCA certified positions by fiscal year
Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.
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