Senior Software Developer, AI Networking
NVIDIA Corporation · Santa Clara, CA
$152,000–$287,500from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Santa Clara, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A software development role focused on building and maintaining AI networking communication frameworks, benchmarking tools, and automation systems that run at data center scale. The work spans the full stack — from hardware and networking layers up through large-scale AI training and inference workloads — with an emphasis on identifying performance bottlenecks and driving improvements. Best suited to experienced Python developers comfortable in Linux environments who are eager to work across networking, HPC, and modern AI infrastructure.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 94,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 57,000–142,000
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). 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 (6)
The posting advertises two salary bands: $152,000–$241,500 (Level 3) and $184,000–$287,500 (Level 4). The combined range ($152,000–$287,500) is reported here; the actual offer will depend on the level assigned to the selected candidate.
The degree requirement (B.Sc./M.Sc. in CS/Software Engineering) is explicitly paired with 'or equivalent experience', so no formal degree is hard-gated.
All 'Ways to stand out from the crowd' items (PyTorch, LLMs, Slurm/Kubernetes, MPI/HPC, InfiniBand/Ethernet, performance optimization) are listed under a clearly secondary heading and treated as preferred.
InfiniBand and Ethernet appear together as distinct networking technologies in the same preferred bullet; they are emitted as separate skills. Slurm and Kubernetes are listed as interchangeable cluster orchestration options and emitted as one skill with an alternative.
The caller has declared this a fully-remote, national role; no metro is inferred from the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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