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It is a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology and amazing people. Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, generative AI, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, andthe world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work.\nWe are seeking a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. Our company is at the forefront of technological innovation, and we are dedicated to driving efficiency, defining platform architecture, and optimizing the performance of our infrastructure both on-prem and in the cloud. You willlead the architectural vision for a massive global platform and spearhead the operationalization of our internal frontier-class AI inference systems. Join usin this exciting endeavor!\nWhat You Will Be Doing:\nDefine Platform Architecture: Lead initiatives to architect and transform our global enterprise compute platform-running thousands of nodes and tens of thousands of VMs and containers via OpenShift and KubeVirt-by defining service tiers, SLAs, and automated cluster lifecycles.\n\nOperationalize Frontier AI Infrastructure: Build the operational foundation for our internal AI inference platform scaling to frontier-class models. You will develop automated remediation pipelines, hardware watchdogs, and telemetry for pre-release, rack-scale GPU systems (including Blackwell and upcoming architectures).\n\nDrive Strategic Capacity & Scale: Collect and review system data for capacity planning to navigate extreme hardware supply constraints. 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You will design compelling self-service architectures, APIs, and Terraform/OpenTofu providers that teams want to use.\n\nLead Complex Migrations: Evaluate existing application architectures and drive the fraught but critical migration of massive legacy workloads-including large-scale, long-running VDI environments-into modern Kubernetes orchestration.\n\nWhat We Need To See:\nBachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field, or equivalent experience.\n\n15+ years of proven experience in compute platform engineering, site reliability, or systems architecture with a heavy focus on automation at massive scale.\n\nDeep expertise in Kubernetes architecture and designing/deploying virtualization architectures, specifically operating VMs inside K8s (KubeVirt, OpenShift).\n\nIn-depth knowledge of hardware technologies (GPUs, high-speed backplane networking) with a track record of mitigating hardware-level failures, silent data corruption, and anomalies in large-scale environments.\n\nExperience running large global environments spanning bare metal, virtualized infrastructure, and cloud with a unified GitOps posture (ArgoCD or similar).\n\nProficiency in programming languages such as Go and/or Python, alongside expert-level infrastructure-as-code development (Terraform, Config Management).\n\nStrong leadership skills with the ability to influence technical direction across highly autonomous teams without relying on top-down mandates.\n\nWays To Stand Out From The Crowd:\nHands-on experience managing bleeding-edge, pre-release hardware in production environments.\n\nDeep understanding of advanced storage migrations and protocols (NFSv4, NVMe/TCP, Hyperconverged storage).\n\nSolid understanding of microservices architecture and seamless multi-cloud deployment strategies (AWS, GCP).\n\nProven track record of building \"Day 2\" operational maturity (self-service, advanced auto-remediation, strict SLAs) from the ground up on existing foundations.\n\nNVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and dedicated people in the world working for us. If you are creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you!\nYour base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 248,000 USD - 391,000 USD.You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.\nApplications for this job will be accepted at least until September 3, 2026.This posting is for an existing vacancy.\nNVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.\nNVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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