Senior DevOps Software Engineer - Chip Design

Overview

• NVIDIA is looking for a passionate and experienced software developer to join our Chip Design Technologies group, helping to build the software infrastructure and tools that shape the future of Chip Design and Verification.
• This role works at the intersection of infrastructure engineering, tooling, and database ownership.
• You’ll be responsible for the backbone systems that enable the development of NVIDIA’s industry-leading networking chips – the highway for the AI revolution.
• We're looking for a senior hands-on engineer who combines deep expertise in Python automation and CI/CD data flows with a passion for large-scale compute environments.
• If you’re excited about optimizing critical systems, owning the health of compute farms, and driving reliability across cross-functional teams, you’ll feel right at home here.
• What you’ll be doing: Partner with Chip Design teams to solve engineering bottlenecks: Collaborate closely with Design, Verification, and Methodology teams to identify workflow pain points and deliver infrastructure solutions that directly improve chip design productivity and quality.
• Build automation infrastructure: Design, build, and maintain robust Python-based automation infrastructure that orchestrates chip design flows, monitoring, and infrastructure tooling.
• Drive the compute infrastructure scalability, integrity and performance Own the platform health: Take ownership of the day-to-day health, capacity, and reliability of our compute farm and storage systems.
• This includes leading incident response, triage, and implementing long-term fixes to ensure high availability.
• What we need to see: B.Sc.
• in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Python infrastructure engineering, specifically focused on automation or tooling for Linux-based compute and storage systems.
• Strong DevOps/automation development expertise Solid Linux systems fundamentals (processes, networking, filesystems), with a comfort level managing NFS, permissions, and quotas.
• Proven incident response capabilities and a track record of owning critical systems with high availability requirements.
• Ways to stand out from the crowd: Familiarity with hardware verification workflows and the specific compute/storage demands of the semiconductor industry.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale infrastructure and databases (metrics, logs, tracing) and alert tuning.
• Exposure to building and maintaining REST services for internal tooling, service accounts, and secrets management.
• Proven ability to identify efficiency gaps in infrastructure workflows and deliver impactful automation improvements.
• NVIDIA has some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us.
• Are you a creative and autonomous engineer who loves a challenge? Come join our team and help us build the future HPC and data centers.