--- title: Senior Systems Engineer Agentic AI at NVIDIA description: NVIDIA is hiring for the Senior Systems Engineer Agentic AI role in Santa Clara, CA. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/senior-systems-engineer-agentic-ai-at-nvidia-01a14c0e-ba31-7fe7-97c3-2d071ab2dc10 date: 2026-11-15T01:26:44Z og_description: Join NVIDIA as Senior Systems Engineer Agentic AI in Santa Clara, CA. Pays $224K–$356.5K per year. Requires 12+ years of experience. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/g9kf0a.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | [NVIDIA](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/nvidia?utm_source=ai_markdown) | | **Location** | Austin, TX | | **Salary** | $224K/yr - $356.5K/yr | | **Posted** | Oct 16, 2026 | ## Is this job real? **Ghost job check:** A- · Low risk. Probably a real opening. ## Visa sponsorship - **H-1B:** NVIDIA sponsors H-1B visas. It filed 3,120 H-1B petitions (FY2026 Q1 – FY2026 Q4). - **E-Verify:** No E-Verify enrollment on record for NVIDIA. ## Pay for similar jobs Most similar jobs pay $183,000 – $290,000 a year (median $236,000). ## Description Today, NVIDIA is tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which GPUs serve as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand and interact with the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent.   NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Software Architect in the Agent Harness & Runtime Engineering team to build foundational systems for the next generation of agentic AI. Our team works at the intersection of AI and systems engineering, tackling challenges across agent runtimes, inference, evaluation, and large-scale execution. We are looking for someone with the AI breadth to quickly understand emerging problems, the systems depth to architect solutions at scale, and the engineering strength to build them. This is an opportunity to work across the agentic AI stack and translate rapidly evolving AI capabilities into scalable, production-quality systems.   **What You'll Be Doing:** - Architect and build scalable, reliable systems for agentic AI, spanning agent runtimes, harnesses, inference, evaluation, and orchestration. - Solve large-scale systems challenges across distributed execution, data/ETL pipelines, HPC, cloud, Kubernetes, and GPU compute environments. - Optimize systems for reliability, scalability, performance, resource utilization, and developer experience. - Prototype emerging ideas, write high-quality production code, and provide technical leadership across research, engineering, product, and infrastructure teams. **What We Need to See:** - BS, MS, or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, AI, or a related field, with 12+ years of relevant industry experience. - Strong foundation in modern AI, including LLMs, multimodal models, inference, agentic AI, and evaluation. - Deep expertise in software architecture, distributed systems, and large-scale systems design. - Strong hands-on programming skills in Python, C++, Go, Rust, or similar languages, with a track record of building high-quality production software. - Background building large-scale systems involving distributed execution, data processing/ETL, workflow orchestration, HPC, cloud, or GPU infrastructure. - Ability to reason across the stack—from AI model behavior and application logic to runtime, compute, and infrastructure. - Proven ability to take ambiguous, complex technical problems from architecture through implementation and production. **Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd:** - Knowledge of LLM/VLM inference, model serving, model routing, or inference optimization. - Background in AI evaluation, benchmarking, experimentation, or large-scale AI infrastructure. - Track record of building reusable platforms supporting heterogeneous AI workloads and compute environments. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary ranges for this position are: 224,000 USD – 356,500 USD for Level 5; and 272,000 USD – 431,250 USD for Level 6. You will also be eligible for equity and [benefits](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/benefits/). Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 8, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes. NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. ## Skills - Distributed Systems - High-Performance Computing - Cloud Computing - LLM Model Routing - Technical Leadership - GPU Computing - Go - Agentic AI - Extract Transform Load (Etl) - Python - AI Evaluation - Vision-Language Models (Vlm) - Artificial Intelligence - Scale AI - Kubernetes - Inference Optimization - Climbing Equipment - Scalability - Benchmarking - C++ - Large Language Models (Llm) - Computer Engineering - Rust - Computer Science - Model Serving - GPU Infrastructure - Workflow Orchestration - Data Processing - Multimodal AI - Software Architecture ## Related - [More jobs at NVIDIA](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/nvidia?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Engineering jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/engineering?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Systems Engineering jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/engineering/systems-engineering?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Systems Engineer jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/engineering/systems-engineering/systems-engineer?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Explore this job market - [Texas](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/texas?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 234470 jobs - [Austin, TX](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/texas/austin?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 27387 jobs - [Computer Hardware](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/computer-hardware?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 22574 jobs - [NVIDIA](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/nvidia?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 2765 jobs ## Related pages - [Texas](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/texas?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 234470 jobs - [Austin, TX](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/texas/austin?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 27387 jobs - [Computer Hardware](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/computer-hardware?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 22574 jobs - [NVIDIA](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/nvidia?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 2765 jobs ## Browse - [Companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by country](https://www.foundrole.com/locations?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs in the United States by state and city](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B sponsors by location](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-sponsors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B salaries](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-salaries?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Sectors and industries](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by career field](https://www.foundrole.com/careers?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Latest jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/latest?utm_source=ai_markdown)