Senior Linux Systems Engineer - EDA Infrastructure at NVIDIA

Department: Engineer, Sys SW

Compensation

$184,000 – $356,500/yr

Setup: Remote
Location: Austin, Texas · Westford, Massachusetts · +2
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Sep 17, 2026

Description

NVIDIA is hiring a Linux Systems Engineer for its Infrastructure Engineering team to support high-performance EDA compute farms. The role covers Linux infrastructure maintenance, security, and tuning; Infrastructure as Code automation with Ansible and Terraform; Python, Bash, or Go tooling; LDAP/SSSD naming services; and NFS and Autofs storage. Candidates need at least 8 years of RPM-based Linux systems engineering experience, a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, and strong knowledge of virtualization, containers, networking, and scripting. The base salary is 184,000 USD to 287,500 USD for Level 4 and 224,000 USD to 356,500 USD for Level 5, with equity and benefits, and applications were accepted until September 21, 2026.

Required Skills

Linux internals
Ansible
Terraform
Python
Bash
Go
Docker
Kubernetes
LDAP/SSSD
NFS
Autofs
CI/CD

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
Required Previous Experiences: 8+ years of deep systems engineering experience with RPM-based Linux distributions
End-to-end multi-tier infrastructure automation and centralized deployment management
Scalable container infrastructure design and development
Infrastructure automation and tooling development with Python, Bash, or Go
OSI networking, TCP socket states, MTU optimization, packet capture, and SDN
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with more than one configuration management system
CI/CD integration pipelines for infrastructure artifacts
Relevant industry certifications such as RHCE or CKA
GCP and AWS compute services management
LLM-based infrastructure development and management
EDA toolchain and high-performance compute cluster experience