Role at a glance
- Job function
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Software Engineering & IT DevOps & Site Reliability Engineering Software Engineering
- Salary
- Not Disclosed
- Location
- Santa Clara, California, United States
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- 5+ years building software for or operating production infrastructure, including substantial hands-on bare-metal experience.
- Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience in a practical setting.
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Role Summary
Builds software and operational tooling to bring bare-metal GPU capacity into production for an IaaS environment. The role supports NVIDIA GPU infrastructure across cloud partner and on-premises environments.
What You'll Do
- Build automation for bare-metal provisioning, hardware validation, firmware and software upgrades, repair, and cluster lifecycle management.
- Develop tools using BMC and Redfish interfaces to monitor hardware health, manage server state, and assist recovery workflows.
- Diagnose failures across servers, DPUs, GPU and CPU systems, networking, Linux, and Kubernetes, and automate detection and repair of...
- Define validation and handoff criteria for safely bringing new capacity into production.
- Participate in on-call duties, incident response, root-cause analysis, and permanent follow-up solutions.
- Coordinate with hardware, networking, platform, data center operations, and partner teams to resolve cross-team issues.
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5+ years building software for or operating production infrastructure, including substantial hands-on bare-metal experience. Strong Go or Python skills and experience delivering production automation and services. Direct BMC and Redfish experience; practical experience with NVIDIA GPU hardware such as NVL72 systems and BlueField-3 or newer DPUs. Experience with Linux, firmware and driver management, network boot, server lifecycle management, production reliability, on-call and incident response, observability, and debugging across hardware, operating systems, networking, and distributed services. Clear communication and ownership across teams. BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred
- Experience operating BlueField DPUs in DPU mode, including host-to-DPU connectivity and lifecycle debugging; DPU or equivalent...
- Background with NVLink, InfiniBand, Spectrum-X, or GPU cluster performance validation.
- Experience building safe, repeatable workflows for rack-scale bringup, firmware upgrades, hardware replacement, and customer handoff.
- Experience with Kubernetes, GitOps, Argo CD, SLOs, and fleet-wide automation.
Original job description
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Original job description
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NVIDIA DGX Cloud builds and operates large-scale GPU infrastructure for AI workloads. We are looking for Software Engineers with SRE or Production Engineering experience who have worked hands-on with bare-metal NVIDIA systems. This team builds the software and operational tooling that moves GPU capacity from installed hardware to production service supporting an IaaS production environment of BMaaS, VMaaS.
What you’ll be doing
- Build automation for bare-metal provisioning, hardware validation, firmware and software upgrades, repair, and cluster lifecycle management.
- Develop tools that interact with BMC and Redfish interfaces to monitor hardware health, manage server state, and assist recovery workflows.
- Handle and advance NVIDIA NVL72 systems and BlueField-3 or later DPUs throughout cloud partner and on-premises environments.
- Diagnose failures across servers, DPUs, GPU systems, CPU systems, networking, Linux, and Kubernetes; turn recurring issues into automated detection and repair.
- Define validation and handoff criteria so new capacity enters production safely and consistently.
- Take part in on-call duties, incident response, root-cause analysis, and follow-up to implement permanent solutions.
- Work with hardware, networking, platform, data center operations, and partner teams to resolve issues across ownership boundaries.
What we need to see:
- 5+ years building software for or operating production infrastructure, including substantial hands-on bare-metal experience.
- Strong Go or Python skills, with a record of delivering production automation and services.
- Direct experience with BMC and Redfish in server provisioning, health inspection, power management, or fault diagnosis.
- Practical experience working directly with NVIDIA GPU hardware, such as NVL72 systems, and BlueField-3 or newer DPUs.
- Experience with Linux, firmware and driver management, network boot, and the server lifecycle from initial provisioning through repair.
- Experience managing production reliability through on-call duties, incident response, observability, and durable solutions.
- Ability to debug failures across hardware, host operating systems, networking, and distributed services.
- Clear communication and demonstrated ownership of problems that span multiple teams.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience in a practical setting.
Ways to stand out from the crowd:
- Experience operating BlueField DPUs in DPU mode, including host-to-DPU connectivity and lifecycle debugging, with DPU or equivalent experience considered.
- Background with NVLink, InfiniBand, Spectrum-X, or GPU cluster performance validation.
- Experience building safe, repeatable workflows for rack-scale bringup, firmware upgrades, hardware replacement, and customer handoff.
- Experience with Kubernetes, GitOps, Argo CD, SLOs, and fleet-wide automation.
At NVIDIA, you’ll help make next-generation AI infrastructure production-ready at scale!
Your 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.
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.About the company
NVIDIA
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NVIDIA is a leading technology company renowned for its graphics processing units (GPUs) and innovative computing solutions that enhance visual experiences across multiple platforms, including gaming, scientific research, and artificial intelligence. Founded in 1993, the company has expanded its offerings to include powerful AI frameworks and deep learning platforms, making significant contributions to industries such as gaming, data centers, automotive, and healthcare. NVIDIA's commitment to pushing the boundaries of visual computing continues to drive advancements in both hardware and software, positioning the company at the forefront of emerging technologies and digital transformation.