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If so, we have a phenomenal opportunity for you! NVIDIA is seeking a creative, hands-on automation engineer with strong Python development skills, a quality-focused attitude, and the ability to understand complex software, hardware, and PC gaming interactions. The successful candidate will help build and maintain Python-based automation frameworks, use AI development tools to accelerate test creation and implementation, and contribute to manual test planning and execution for NVIDIA App, the successor to GeForce Experience and NVIDIA Control Panel.\nAs a Software Development Engineer in Test, you will develop automation, tools, and test coverage for NVIDIA software products, with a focus on improving quality, accelerating validation, and identifying defects early in the development lifecycle.\nWhat you’ll be doing:\nDesign, implement, and maintain automated tests using Python for NVIDIA app and interactions with drivers, applications, and gaming-related technologies.\n\nUse AI development tools such as Codex, Claude Code, Cursor or similar AI-assisted development tools to accelerate automation development, test generation, debugging, and workflow optimization.\n\nBuild and improve automation framework components, utilities, and tools that make test execution more reliable, scalable, and efficient.\n\nTranslate product documentation and feature requirements into test plans, automation coverage, and targeted hands-on validation for complex PC platform scenarios, including corner cases and obscure interactions across hardware, software, drivers, games, and system settings.\n\nDebug automation failures, product defects, and platform issues to identify root cause and communicate findings clearly.\n\nWrite maintainable, reliable, and well-documented Python code. Participate in peer code reviews with feedback on correctness, scalability, maintainability, and performance.\n\nWork closely with development, QA, and leadership teams to report progress, raise risks, and improve overall product quality.\n\nWhat we need to see:\nB.E./B. Tech degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.\n\n5+ years of software development, test automation, or software quality engineering experience, including collaboration across development and test teams across the globe.\n\nStrong programming experience in Python, including object-oriented programming, package management, debugging, logging, error handling, and automation framework development.\n\nHands-on experience building or maintaining automated tests, test tools, or automation infrastructure.\n\nWorking knowledge of AI-assisted development tools and workflows, including the ability to use coding agents or CLI-based AI tools to generate, modify, debug, and improve automation code.\n\nExperience reading user documentation, product specifications, or feature requirements and developing test plans and test cases from them.\n\nGood understanding of Windows operating systems, PC architecture, drivers, hardware/software interactions, PC gaming scenarios, and troubleshooting workflows.\n\nStrong problem-solving and debugging skills, including the ability to isolate issues across automation, product code, operating systems, drivers, hardware configurations, and game/application behavior.\n\nWays to stand out from the crowd:\nExperience with agentic AI development, including how agents are created, configured, prompted, evaluated, and integrated into engineering workflows.\n\nPrior experience using Codex, Claude Code, or similar AI coding agents for real software development or test automation work.\n\nExperience with GPUs, graphics drivers, gaming technologies, or NVIDIA technologies such as DLSS, Frame Generation, Reflex, CUDA, G-Sync, or related areas.\n\nStrong knowledge of PC gaming ecosystems, including launchers, overlays, multi-monitor setups, display modes, input devices, performance tools, and compatibility scenarios.\n\nYour base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 140,000 USD - 224,250 USD for Level 3, and 168,000 USD - 270,250 USD for Level 4.You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.\nApplications for this job will be accepted at least until September 4, 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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