Principal Engineer - Enterprise Applications

Details

NVIDIA is hiring a Principal Engineer in Santa Clara, CA to design, implement, and optimize enterprise-level IT systems. The role focuses on scalability, performance, system integration, and delivering high-quality user experiences for internal employees and developers. This position is part of NVIDIA's enterprise applications engineering efforts and contributes to large-scale IT initiatives, on-prem to cloud migrations, and integrations across SaaS and platform services.

Responsibilities

• Technology leadership: design, implement, and optimize enterprise-level IT systems with a focus on scalability, performance, and flawless user experience.
• System integration: lead integration of diverse IT systems and platforms, ensuring seamless functionality and minimal disruption during transitions.
• Innovation and optimization: evaluate new technologies and methodologies to find opportunities for innovation and optimization within the IT infrastructure.
• Collaboration and partnership: work with teams across product and engineering to ensure IT solutions adapt to evolving requirements.
• Focused execution: implement company-wide IT initiatives at large scale, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and aligned with business goals.
• Problem solving: analyze and resolve complex IT issues to maintain system integrity and performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 15+ years of experience in IT engineering roles, with a proven track record of successful system implementations and optimizations.
• Deep technical expertise in cloud computing, SaaS applications, integration platforms, data analytics, and AI/ML technologies.
• Strong business insight: ability to translate business processes and workflows into effective IT solutions.
• Outstanding leadership skills: ability to encourage and motivate teams, build consensus, and lead change across the organization.
• Effective communication and interpersonal abilities: capable of conveying information to individuals with varying technical expertise, including senior leaders.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving: ability to think critically, solve complex problems, and make data-driven decisions.

Ways to stand out

• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Background in the technology or engineering industry.
• Experience with large-scale on-prem to cloud migrations for enterprise applications such as Atlassian and Artifactory.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary range: 248,000 USD - 391,000 USD (final base determined by location, experience, and internal pay equity).
• Eligible for equity and benefits (see NVIDIA benefits: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/benefits/).

Additional information

• Location: Santa Clara, CA, United States.
• Employment type: Full time. #LI-Hybrid
• Applications accepted at least until July 29, 2025.
• NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in hiring and promotion practices.