Senior Software Engineer - NIM Factory Container and Cloud Infrastructure

NVIDIA • Santa Clara, CA

105d • $184,000 - $287,500

About The Position

NVIDIA is the platform upon which every new AI-powered application is built. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on container and cloud infrastructure. You will help design and implement our core container strategy for NVIDIA Inference Microservices (NIMs) and our hosted services. You will build enterprise-grade software and tooling for container build, packaging, and deployment. You will help improve reliability, performance, and scale across thousands of GPUs. There is much more to build ahead, including support for disaggregated LLM inference and other emerging deployment patterns.

Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (BS or MS) or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years building production software with a strong focus on containers and Kubernetes.
• Strong Python skills building production-grade tooling/services.
• Experience with Python SDKs and clients for Kubernetes and cloud services.
• Expert knowledge of Docker/BuildKit, containerd/OCI, image layering, multi-stage builds, and registry workflows.
• Deep experience operating workloads on Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience building and running GPU workloads in k8s, including NVIDIA device plugin, MIG, CUDA drivers/runtime, and resource isolation.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills; ability to influence cross-functional design.

Nice To Haves

• Expertise with Helm chart design systems, Operators, and platform APIs serving many teams.
• Experience with OpenAI API, Hugging Face API as well as understanding difference inference backends (vLLM, SGLang, TRT-LLM).
• Background in benchmarking and optimizing inference container performance and startup latency at scale.
• Prior experience designing multi-tenant, multi-cluster, or edge/air-gapped container delivery.
• Contributions to open-source container, k8s, or GPU ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and harden containers for NIM runtimes, inference backends; enable reproducible, multi-arch, CUDA-optimized builds.
• Develop Python tooling and services for build orchestration, CI/CD integrations, Helm/Operator automation, and test harnesses; enforce quality with typing, linting, and unit/integration tests.
• Help design and evolve Kubernetes deployment patterns for NIMs, including GPU scheduling, autoscaling, and multi-cluster rollouts.
• Optimize container performance: layer layout, startup time, build caching, runtime memory/IO, network, and GPU utilization; instrument with metrics and tracing.
• Evolve the base image strategy, dependency management, and artifact/registry topology.
• Collaborate across research, backend, SRE, and product teams to ensure day-0 availability of new models.
• Mentor teammates; set high engineering standards for container quality, security, and operability.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Generous benefits package
• Equity eligibility

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees