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# Principal Systems Software Engineer, Semiconductor Systems Inspection at NVIDIA USA

Compensation · Listed in posting

$272,000 – $431,250/yr

**Location**
: Santa Clara, California

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: staff+

**Posted**
: Sep 16, 2026

## Description

NVIDIA is hiring a Principal Systems Software Engineer for Semiconductor Inspection in Santa Clara to architect and deliver production-ready AI systems for optical and e-beam inspection, wafer and mask inspection, metrology, defect review, equipment signals, and process data. The role covers foundation models, computer vision, time-series and multimodal AI, anomaly detection, model adaptation, evaluation, agentic workflows, inference optimization, and deployment in air-gapped fab environments. Candidates need an MS or PhD in a relevant technical field or equivalent experience, 12+ years of software or algorithm engineering, 8+ years in semiconductor manufacturing, and strong Python, PyTorch or TensorFlow, and GPU skills. The base salary is 272,000 USD to 431,250 USD, with equity and benefits.

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