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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Enterprise AI Platform

NVIDIA· Engineer, SW
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Santa Clara, CA$224k - $356.5kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior role building NVIDIA's enterprise AI platform for long-running autonomous agents, providing blueprints, runtime safety, credentials, observability, and orchestration across harnesses to enable secure, self-improving agents in production.

Responsibilities

  • Design agent blueprints with clean interfaces for authorization, sandbox, memory, observability, and skills, so a new agent inherits its enterprise integrations from the platform.
  • Build the runtime safety harness: a policy engine that checks every action before it runs, rate and budget caps, circuit breakers, approval gates, action allow-lists, and a kill switch that works even when an agent goes rogue.
  • Enable composing and orchestrating agents: skills as first-class units with declarative manifests, multi-agent orchestration for delegation and handoff, and support for headless, long-running, autonomous agents.
  • Broker credentials so multi-agent systems can authenticate and authorize without ever touching secrets, with least-privilege scoping on every token.
  • Provide checkpoint and recovery so an agent resumes cleanly after a crash or restart.
  • Instrument observability and evaluation that span harnesses: decision-level traces with correlation IDs, what the agent saw and chose and why, cost anomaly alerts that catch looping, and quality scoring across skills, whole agents and products. Then close the loop: turn those signals into insights that make the agents better.
  • Participate in on-call rotation to keep the platform healthy and reliable.

Qualifications

  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 12+ years building distributed systems, infrastructure, or developer platforms at scale
  • Hands-on experience building agents on a harness, exposing them as APIs, and shipping them with CI/CD
  • Experience deploying and operating long-running services on container orchestration platforms
  • Experience with the building blocks of scalable systems: messaging, caching, and durable storage
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or similar

Skills

Required:Agent blueprint designRuntime safety harness

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (see company benefits page)
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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