CareerPlan

Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems - NIM Factory

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$184k2026-11-02 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design and build factory infrastructure and automation pipelines to validate and deploy NVIDIA Inference Microservices (NIMs) across heterogeneous cloud, on-prem, and Kubernetes environments.

Role type

Senior IC distributed systems engineer (factory infrastructure)

Builds

Scalable factory pipelines, backends, Docker build systems, test harnesses, and observability tools for AI model deployment

Domain

AI/ML infrastructure, distributed systems, cloud computing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed systems design, microservices architecture, containerization (Docker, K8s), cloud technologies, data modeling, schema design, performance engineering, log ingestion, event-driven architecture

Preferred skills

Temporal, Kafka, Redis, CI/CD pipelines, large-scale full stack development

Technologies

Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, Kafka, Redis, Temporal

Responsibilities

Develop factory pipelines to produce validated deployable services; design interfaces and expand observability over compute infrastructure; collaborate with AI model teams to build efficient infrastructure; define metrics and drive improvements based on feedback; mentor team members

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC