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Senior Software Engineer, NeMo Helix Core Platform

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA), Remote$184k - $287.5kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer to help build NeMo Helix, NVIDIA’s platform for developing, evaluating, deploying, and operating AI systems at scale. Focus on Core team with open source plugin-based AI platform for running and optimizing Agents across multiple compute backends (local/docker, Kubernetes, Slurm, etc.).

Responsibilities

  • Working in a product research environment with fast iteration and high ownership
  • Designing an Agentic Execution system flexible across environments (local, k8s, Slurm, on prem / air-gapped)
  • Providing senior technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and ownership of cross-component problems
  • Building and maintaining Core Platform APIs for running jobs, storing data, entities, secrets, and RBAC and Auth
  • Extending a flexible Plugin Architecture to allow teams and external customers to install new capabilities
  • Building in the open in the OSS repository and maintaining high open source standards
  • Shipping code rapidly with strong tooling and resources
  • Improving reliability, observability, debuggability, and performance across NeMo Helix, SDKs, plugins, jobs, and developer workflows
  • Building strong test coverage across unit, integration, E2E, Docker, and Kubernetes workflows

Qualifications

  • BS, MS, or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems
  • Comfort in fast and ambiguous environments
  • Excellent verbal and written communication; ability to produce and review high-quality architectural RFCs
  • Strong system design skills with focus on reliability, scalability, security, and performance tradeoffs in production infrastructure
  • Experience with distributed systems, cloud-native services, containers, Kubernetes, and job orchestration
  • Excellent Python engineering skills (API design, typing, testing, debugging, performance analysis, maintainable design)
  • Experience designing SDKs, libraries, plugins, CLIs, or other developer-facing interfaces
  • Ability to work independently, define technical scope, break down problems, and drive work across teams

Skills

Required:PythonDistributed systemsSystem designSDKs / Libraries / Plugins / CLIsCommunication

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits (see NVIDIA benefits)
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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