Senior Software Engineer - BaseOS

NVIDIA Ltd.
Santa Clara, United States of America
10 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 118K

Job location

Santa Clara, United States of America

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Data analysis
Unit Testing
Ubuntu (Operating System)
Continuous Integration
Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements)
Python
Linux Distribution
Open Source Technology
Red Hat Enterprise Linux - RHEL
Software Tools
Software Engineering
Delivery Pipeline
Containerization
AI Platforms
Gitlab-ci
Integration Tests
Kubernetes
Information Technology
Terraform
Jenkins

Job description

NVIDIA BaseOS is the Linux distribution for NVIDIA GPU-based platforms deployed in AI and Data-Analytics industries. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you'll design and build robust CI/CD pipelines, champion automation initiatives, and develop comprehensive testing frameworks. Working closely with System and Software development teams, you'll drive end-to-end automation for all developer and release workflows., * Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for building OS images across Ubuntu and RHEL distributions

  • Build unit testing and integration testing frameworks using Go and Python
  • Optimize CI/CD infrastructure using Jenkins and GitlabCI
  • Implement infrastructure as code with Terraform and work with Kubevirt for virtualized workloads
  • Create and maintain Ubuntu and RHEL packaging solutions (deb/rpm)
  • Identify infrastructure improvements and implement metrics gathering systems for KPIs and dashboards
  • Champion automation initiatives to achieve 100% end-to-end automation across developer and release workflows

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience focused on infrastructure and platform systems
  • Expert-level proficiency in Go and Python
  • Strong experience with Jenkins, GitlabCI, and Terraform
  • Hands-on experience with Kubevirt and Ubuntu/RHEL packaging (deb/rpm)
  • Proven unit testing strategies and framework development experience
  • Expertise in KPI Infrastructure for metrics identification, gathering, and dashboards
  • Experience using AI tools such as Cursor/Claude
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Ways to Stand Out From the Crowd:

  • Functional testing and end-to-end test automation experience
  • Contributions to open-source infrastructure or Linux distribution projects
  • Experience with container orchestration and cloud-native technologies

If you're excited about building world-class infrastructure and automation systems that power NVIDIA's AI platforms, we'd love to hear from you!

Benefits & conditions

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.

About the company

NVIDIA's invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI - the next era of computing - with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, we are increasingly known as "the AI computing company." We're looking to grow our company, and build our teams with the smartest people in the world. Join us at the forefront of technological advancement.

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