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Senior Systems Engineer -- Agentic AI

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Hybrid (Austin, TX), Remote, Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA)$224k - $356.5kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Architect in the Agent Harness & Runtime Engineering team building foundational systems for agentic AI, spanning runtimes, inference, evaluation, and large-scale execution across AI and systems engineering domains.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build scalable, reliable systems for agentic AI, spanning agent runtimes, harnesses, inference, evaluation, and orchestration.
  • Solve large-scale systems challenges across distributed execution, data/ETL pipelines, HPC, cloud, Kubernetes, and GPU compute environments.
  • Optimize systems for reliability, scalability, performance, resource utilization, and developer experience.
  • Prototype emerging ideas, write high-quality production code, and provide technical leadership across research, engineering, product, and infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

  • BS, MS, or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, AI, or a related field, with 12+ years of relevant industry experience.
  • Strong foundation in modern AI, including LLMs, multimodal models, inference, agentic AI, and evaluation.
  • Deep expertise in software architecture, distributed systems, and large-scale systems design.
  • Strong hands-on programming skills in Python, C++, Go, Rust, or similar languages, with a track record of building high-quality production software.
  • Background building large-scale systems involving distributed execution, data processing/ETL, workflow orchestration, HPC, cloud, or GPU infrastructure.
  • Ability to reason across the stack—from AI model behavior and application logic to runtime, compute, and infrastructure.
  • Proven ability to take ambiguous, complex technical problems from architecture through implementation and production.

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designProgrammingAI fundamentals

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (as listed in job description)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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