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Our Bare Metal Infrastructure team owns the software that turns newly racked hardware into reliable, validated production capacity. We’re looking for a software engineer with deep systems engineering instincts - someone who writes production code and understands how servers, firmware, BMCs, and networks actually behave. You’ll work across the full bare-metal lifecycle: new platform introduction, firmware qualification, automated provisioning, validation, remediation, and handoff to production. We use AI agents and LLM tools heavily in how we build software, and we want someone excited to push that further.\nWhat you’ll be doing:\nDesigning, building, and maintaining production services for bare-metal discovery, provisioning, hardware validation, firmware upgrades, auditing, and repair across large GPU fleets.\nDeveloping integrations with Redfish and vendor BMC interfaces to manage server state, collect inventory and health data, enforce configuration, and drive recovery - handling vendor differences in code.\nContributing to and reviewing code in our Rust codebase, and building supporting tools and services in Go and Python.\nTurning recurring hardware, firmware, and connectivity failures into automated detection, validation, and repair workflows.\nDefining and implementing automated validation and handoff criteria for new platforms, firmware releases, and rack-scale deployments.\nDebugging complex failures across hardware, firmware, Linux, networking, and provisioning services, and feeding what you learn back into the software.\nPartnering with server and component vendors and with internal platform, networking, datacenter, and production engineering teams to resolve cross-boundary issues.\nUsing AI agents and LLM tools daily to write, review, and test code and to investigate failures, and helping shape how the team builds with AI.\nWhat we need to see:\nBS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.\n5+ years building production infrastructure software, automation, or services, including substantial hands-on work with bare-metal server systems.\nStrong programming skills in Rust, Go, or Python, with a track record of designing, testing, shipping, and maintaining production code and willingness to work in Rust regularly.\nDeep knowledge of enterprise server hardware from multiple vendors (Dell, Supermicro, Lenovo, HPE), including BMCs, BIOS/UEFI, and firmware management.\nDirect experience with Redfish and IPMI for provisioning, health inspection, power management, or fault diagnosis, and with network boot (PXE/iPXE, DHCP, HTTP boot).\nStrong Linux knowledge: boot process, kernel and driver interactions, hardware discovery, and low-level failure analysis.\nSolid datacenter networking fundamentals with the ability to trace connectivity problems across host, management, and infrastructure networks.\nDemonstrated, regular use of AI agents and LLM tools in software development, with strong interest in improving and the judgment to validate what they produce.\nWays to stand out from the crowd:\nProduction experience writing Rust.\nExperience with NVIDIA DGX or NVL72 systems, NVLink, InfiniBand, Spectrum-X, or BlueField DPUs.\nBackground in hardware qualification, rack-scale bring-up, firmware certification, or new product introduction, including safe, scalable workflows for fleet firmware upgrades, configuration enforcement, hardware replacement, and recovery.\nExperience with Kubernetes, GitOps/Argo CD, or fleet-management platforms.\nExamples of AI-driven tooling or workflows you’ve built that measurably changed how you or your team ships software.\nYour base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3, and 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4.You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.\nApplications for this job will be accepted at least until November 1, 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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