Senior Software Engineer - NIM Platform SDK and Framework

NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA

About The Position

NVIDIA is the platform for every new AI-powered application. We seek a senior engineer to own and evolve the core NIM Platform SDK and microservice framework. This framework powers NVIDIA Inferencing Microservices (NIM). The ideal candidate has deep systems engineering skills and a passion for building foundational platform libraries. These libraries support multiple NIM modalities in delivering production-ready AI inference at scale. This is a hands-on, deeply technical role for someone who thrives on building core platforms that scale. The role involves solving deep software engineering challenges. These include high-performance systems programming, multi-cloud abstractions, and API framework development. The role requires collaboration across NIM product teams and delivering production-grade software supporting NVIDIA and the wider AI ecosystem.

Requirements

BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
8+ years of demonstrated experience developing performant microservice, cloud software and/or platform infrastructure roles.
Deep technical expertise in cloud-native microservice architecture, including service mesh, API gateways, load balancing, and distributed system build patterns.
Expertise in high-performance data pipelines with parallel I/O, caching strategies, and integrity verification across distributed storage systems.
Solid understanding of containerized application delivery using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
Understanding of application security principles, including secure coding practices, vulnerability mitigation, secrets management, and supply chain integrity for containerized environments.
Strong problem-solving skills grounded in first-principles reasoning and critical analysis.
Excellent programming skills in Python and Rust, with strong foundations in algorithms, development patterns, and software engineering principles.

Nice To Haves

Direct involvement in open-source inference backends such as vLLM, TRTLLM, or SGLang.
Direct involvement in disaggregated serving frameworks like NVIDIA Dynamo.
Experience building and operating production microservices at scale.
Deep knowledge of multi-cloud deployment strategies across AWS, GCP, Azure, and OCI.
Experience operating in regulated, air-gapped, or disconnected environments where strict security and compliance controls are required.

Responsibilities

Develop and advance the inference microservice framework: OpenAI-compatible API endpoints, inference backend integrations (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, Dynamo), middleware, observability instrumentation, and production hardening across cloud, on-prem, and Kubernetes environments.
Architect significant new features in open-source codebases, shepherding them through project acceptance and into production.
Build and optimize high-performance model download and caching pipelines across multiple cloud storage backends (NGC, HuggingFace, S3, GCS) - parallel transfers, integrity verification, and seamless multi-cloud operability.
Implement the model profile and manifest system that ensures NIMs are optimized for every NVIDIA GPU platform - profile selection, validation, and multi-GPU configuration.
Develop and refine cloud microservice patterns - service discovery, health checking, graceful degradation, API gateway integration, and end-to-end request lifecycle management - to ensure NIMs operate reliably at scale in diverse cloud deployment environments.
Be a role model for high-quality code across Python, Rust, and C/C++, and model guidelines in test-driven development, agentic AI-assisted development, code review, and cross-team collaboration.
Mentor teammates and establish high engineering standards for container quality, security, and operability.