Senior Software Engineer - Topography

Posted 11 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in Santa Clara, CA, USA
In-Office or Remote
184K-288K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Computer Vision • Hardware • Robotics • Metaverse
The Role
Design and build a Kubernetes-native system that discovers, aggregates, and normalizes cluster topology data for provisioning systems and schedulers. Contribute to the open-source Topograph project, optimize GPU-to-GPU communication on NVIDIA hardware, and collaborate on interfaces between discovery logic, data models, and scheduler output.
Summary Generated by Built In

Are you passionate about Kubernetes and AI and want to help build the best platform for ML/AI infrastructure? Do you thrive when your work directly empowers teams to push the boundaries of what's possible? We're a collaborative group of engineers, architects, and SREs who are passionate about building and nurturing the declarative, Kubernetes-native control plane that powers GPU-accelerated infrastructure across multiple cloud providers.

We are building a platform that gathers topology related information from multiple sources and systems, aggregates and normalizes that data, and makes it available to provisioning systems and workload schedulers. We are looking for Senior Software Engineer who will be directly involved in not only helping maintain this critical open-source project for the community, but interfacing with bleeding edge NVIDIA hardware to ensure GPU to GPU communication is optimized for large-scale workloads across multiple providers.

What you'll be doing:

  • Building a system that gathers topology related information from multiple sources

  • Taking data collected to aggregate and normalize the data to make it available for provisioning systems and workload schedulers

  • Direct contributor in a critical open-source project, Topograph

  • Interacting with the latest and greatest hardware to ensure new product launches have the most efficient scheduling capabilities

What we need to see:

  • At least 8 years of relevant experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

  • Strong production engineering experience in Go or another systems language.

  • Experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes, Slurm/Slinky, Linux, containers, APIs, and CI.

  • Ability to design clean interfaces between discovery logic, data models, and scheduler output.

  • Familiarity with networking, cluster topology, cloud infrastructure, or large-scale compute systems.

  • Excellent testing, debugging, documentation, and code review habits:

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • Experience with GPU clusters, NVLink, InfiniBand, Ethernet fabrics, or HPC.

  • Hands-on work with Kubernetes scheduling, Slurm/Slinky topology, DRA, Kueue, Slinky, or device plugins.

  • Experience integrating with cloud provider topology APIs or cluster metadata systems.

NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars. NVIDIA is looking for great people like you to help us accelerate the next wave of artificial intelligence. NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people on the planet working for us. If you're a creative, curious, and driven technical leader, we want to hear from you!

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Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until July 5, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Skills Required

  • At least 8 years of relevant experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Strong production engineering experience in Go or another systems language.
  • Experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes, Slurm/Slinky, Linux, containers, APIs, and CI.
  • Ability to design clean interfaces between discovery logic, data models, and scheduler output.
  • Familiarity with networking, cluster topology, cloud infrastructure, or large-scale compute systems.
  • Excellent testing, debugging, documentation, and code review habits.
  • Experience with GPU clusters, NVLink, InfiniBand, Ethernet fabrics, or HPC.
  • Hands-on work with Kubernetes scheduling, Slurm/Slinky topology, DRA, Kueue, Slinky, or device plugins.
  • Experience integrating with cloud provider topology APIs or cluster metadata systems.

NVIDIA Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NVIDIA and has not been reviewed or approved by NVIDIA.

  • Equity Value & Accessibility Equity awards and a discounted ESPP are highlighted as core parts of total compensation, enabling employees to share in the company’s success. Stock-based compensation and the two-year lookback ESPP are consistently described as especially valuable.
  • Healthcare Strength Health coverage is portrayed as robust, with comprehensive medical, dental, and vision options alongside mental health support and on-site care resources. Employer HSA contributions and wellness perks reinforce the depth of the offering.
  • Retirement Support Retirement programs are depicted as strong, featuring a meaningful 401(k) match with Roth options and support for Mega Backdoor Roth contributions. These elements position long-term savings as a notable advantage of the total rewards package.

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The Company
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
21,960 Employees
Year Founded: 1993

What We Do

NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, NVIDIA is increasingly known as “the AI computing company.”

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