CareerPlan

Senior Systems Software Engineer, Accelerated Kubernetes Performance and Scale - DGX Cloud

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$184k2026-06-25 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Scaling AI infrastructure on Kubernetes to minimize cost and enable large-scale AI workloads.

Role type

Senior Systems Software Engineer (Kubernetes/Accelerated Computing)

Builds

Production AI runtime stack for GPU clusters

Domain

AI Infrastructure / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Kubernetes, distributed systems, performance optimization, Golang, Python, cloud platforms, containerization, AI workload scaling

Preferred skills

Open-source community contribution, ultra-large cluster scaling, confidential containers (CoCo), DSX simulation

Technologies

Kubernetes, GPU Operator, Network Operator, node-feature-discovery, topograph, dra-driver-nvidia-gpu, nvsentinel, Grove, gateway-api-inference-extension, DSX

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end performance and scalability analysis across the Kubernetes-based accelerated runtime stack; Design and contribute upstream architectural changes to the Kubernetes control plane; Improve container startup and cold-start latency; Assess and improve open-source projects for AI workloads; Advance scalability of confidential containers; Use DSX for large-scale simulation; Collaborate on automated workload tests and monitoring tooling; Document methods and present findings at industry events.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC