Senior SOCD Applied AI Engineer
NVIDIA Corporation · Santa Clara, CA
$168,000–$310,500from the description
Jun 30, 2026
Santa Clara, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits within a chip design team and focuses on building AI-powered automation tools to reduce manual effort in SOC integration workflows. Day-to-day work spans developing LLM-based agents, RAG knowledge systems, and AI-assisted coding tools, then owning their reliability in production. It suits an experienced software engineer with a track record of shipping LLM applications and agentic workflows into real production environments.
Senior level · 6+ years · Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 260 people in the Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 95–330
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $217,796 (middle half $177,469–$231,052). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The posting covers two salary bands (Level 4: $168K–$264.5K; Level 5: $196K–$310.5K). The pay band fields reflect the full combined range across both levels.
Location is listed as '#LI-Hybrid' with no explicit city; NVIDIA's primary campus is Santa Clara, CA (San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara CBSA), used here as the best-fit metro.
Degree requirement: the JD lists 'BS/MS … or equivalent experience', so no formal degree is hard-gated.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is primarily software development (building production AI/LLM systems), but its applied-AI/agentic focus could also fit 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) as a runner-up.
Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Cursor are listed as interchangeable examples of 'coding agents' within the requirements section; Claude Code is used as the primary with the others as alternatives.
React, TypeScript, FastAPI, MCP, fine-tuning, and multi-agent orchestration all appear under the 'Ways to stand out from the crowd' (nice-to-have) section.
The 'containers' and 'distributed or event-driven systems' skills are drawn from the 'Solid software engineering fundamentals' bullet in the required section; 'containers' is named concretely while 'distributed/event-driven systems' is a methodology concept and was omitted per schema rules.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): multi-agent orchestration.
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