Systems Software Engineer – Infrastructure
NVIDIA
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About the opportunity
NVIDIA is seeking an engineer to join the GPU Firmware Infrastructure team to craft automation, tools, and practices that accelerate GPU innovation.
You will be responsible for the substrate, including dev tools, build compute, test farms, artifact and release pipelines, secure signing services, and observability platforms.
In this role, you will invent, craft, and automate workflows using AI, scripts, workflow redesigns, and documentation to empower teams building firmware for NVIDIA GPUs.
This is an opportunity to make an industry impact while working alongside top-tier talent to build AI supercomputers.
Key responsibilities
- Build, supervise, and improve core infrastructure including build systems, regression farms, CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, frameworks, and web services.
- Debug and resolve issues across hardware, software, infrastructure, and team processes for long-term reliability.
- Invent and build AI-powered workflows that scale to multiply output for teams and the company.
- Learn, document, and automate processes, services, and tooling for internal and external projects.
- Identify and eradicate toil company-wide by growing ideas from proof-of-concept to scalable solutions.
Qualifications
- BS or MS degree in EE, CS, CE, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of software, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience with modern CI/CD and test automation, pipeline debugging, and test orchestration frameworks like pytest.
- Experience in or curiosity about device BIOS, firmware, or low-level embedded software, and building tooling for engineers.
- Understanding of infrastructure services and data, including web services, REST APIs, relational databases, and SQL or PostgreSQL schema design.
- Scalability thinking with strong Python skills and comfort in Linux shell environments.
- Strong communication skills to articulate requirements, review critically, and explain trade-offs.
- Interpersonal and empathy skills to collaborate with hardware and software engineers on tooling enhancements.
Nice to have
- Sense of humor.
- Side projects, open-source contributions, or custom internal tools built to solve friction points.
- Track record of writing clear technical proposals, design docs, or architecture decisions.
- Experience with containers, orchestration, or infrastructure-as-code tooling such as K8s.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools.
Benefits
- Highly competitive base salary range of 152,000 USD to 241,500 USD, determined by location, experience, and peer pay.
- Eligibility for equity and comprehensive benefits package as outlined at www.nvidiabenefits.com/.
Job details
- Location: US (remote/hybrid/on-site status per standard NVIDIA guidelines).
- Application deadline: Applications will be accepted at least until October 26, 2026.
- Work authorization: Standard company compliance applies.
About the company
NVIDIA has transformed computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years through innovation and technology.
Today, the company is tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing, using GPUs as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars.
NVIDIANS are immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. NVIDIA is widely considered one of the technology world's most desirable employers.
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