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# Senior System Software Engineer, Agentic Kernel Development at NVIDIA USA

Compensation · Listed in posting

$184,000 – $287,500/yr

**Location**
: Santa Clara, California

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: senior

**Posted**
: Sep 14, 2026

## Description

NVIDIA is hiring a GPU Software Engineer to build, productize, and operate agentic AI systems that work directly on GPU software artifacts. The role owns the full lifecycle of agentic services, develops LLM-powered pipelines for code generation, bug triage, regression detection, and test coverage analysis, and creates MCP-based infrastructure connecting agents to developer systems. The engineer will evaluate agent quality, collaborate with GPU software kernel engineers, and drive adoption of reliable agentic services. The posting requires a BS/MS in a relevant field or equivalent experience, at least 8 years of software engineering experience including 2 years developing production LLM or agentic AI systems, strong Python and modern LLM framework skills, and experience with RAG, tool use, multi-step agents, and live production systems. The base salary range 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; applications were accepted until September 18, 2026.

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