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Senior Data Backend Engineer

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA, Hybrid (Remote - US)$184k - $287.5k + equityFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior technical role focused on building high-performance AI data pipelines and microservices for autonomous vehicle data, enabling data mining and AI training at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Scope and build tools, microservices, workflows, and distributed applications to accelerate data mining and AI training.
  • Design and implement solutions for streaming, resilience, logging, security, authentication, workflow orchestration, and data management.
  • Deploy AI models.
  • Design and develop Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows enabling hybrid and agentic patterns.
  • Analyze and operationalize complex distributed systems for speed-of-light performance.

Qualifications

  • Experience developing high-performance, scalable software systems.
  • MS with 6+ years, or BS (or equivalent) with 8+ years of relevant experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Strong programming skills in Python or Golang
  • Proficiency in Kubernetes, Helm, Hive, Parquet, SQL, vector databases (e.g., Milvus).
  • Strong architectural skills with a proactive, problem-solving mentality.
  • Experience in data mining | AI development
  • Experience building ETL pipelines and working with big data engines.
  • Exceptional collaboration skills to work with system software and AI expert teams.
  • Eagerness to learn and adopt new technologies such as NVIDIA RAPIDS.

Skills

Required:PythonGolangKubernetesHelmParquetSQLVector databases
Nice to have:Hive

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (see NVIDIA benefits)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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