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# Systems Software Engineer

- **Company:** NVIDIA Corporation
- **Location:** Durham, NC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $152,000.0 - $241,500.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** C (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, Computer Vision, Unix, C++ (Programming Language), Computer Programming, Data Files, Linux, Information Extraction, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Scripting, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Deep Learning, Agentic-AI, Information Technology
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-systems-software-engineer-machine-learning-durham-ca--86db7e18-11e9-473c-b0b1-b646d0fcfa68

## About the Role

* Masters degree (or equivalent experience) or preferably a PhD degree in Computer Science or a related field with 5+ years of experience
 * Solid mathematical and algorithmic foundation and proven expertise demonstrated through research publications, internships, or significant project experience.
 * Strong background in computer vision and deep learning.
 * Excellent programming skills in Python and C/C++.
 * Excellent software engineering fundamentals.
 * Ability to develop code in Unix/Linux environments.
 * Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills to present performance challenges, tradeoffs, and architectural alternatives.
 * Strong collaboration skills to partner with other teams.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

 * Experience designing and operating multi-agent pipelines in production, including handling non-deterministic failures, retry logic, and tool-call error recovery"
 * Shipped a product feature backed by a VLM (e.g., image captioning, document understanding) - including handling inference latency, cost-per-call tradeoffs, and degraded-mode fallbacks
 * Shipped AI-powered features to real users - not just prototyped with agent frameworks. If your experience is primarily personal projects or hackathons, this role may not be the right fit yet., Algorithms, Architectural Services, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Autonomous Driving Systems, Building Systems, C Programming Language, C++ Programming Language, Communication Skills, Computer Programming, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Sets, Deep Learning, Document Imaging, Error Recovery, GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), Linux Operating System, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Product Shipments, Prototyping, Publications, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Team Player, Unix Operating Systems, Visual Communication, Writing Skills



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