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[Remote] Senior Data Backend Engineer

Remote · South Africa Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NVIDIA is a global leader in high-speed computer vision, artificial intelligence (AI), and deep learning. They are seeking a Senior Data Backend Engineer to design and optimize microservices and data pipelines for processing massive volumes of autonomous vehicle data and enabling AI training.

Responsibilities

  • Scope and build tools, microservices, workflows, and distributed applications to accelerate data mining and AI training
  • Design and implement solutions for streaming, resilience, logging, security, authentication, workflow orchestration, and data management
  • Deploy AI models
  • Design and develop Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows enabling hybrid and agentic patterns
  • Analyze and operationalize complex distributed systems for speed-of-light performance

Skills

  • Experience developing high-performance, scalable software systems
  • MS with 6+ years, or BS (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
  • Strong programming skills in Python or Golang
  • Proficiency in key technologies like Kubernetes, Helm, Hive, Parquet, SQL, vector databases, e.g., Milvus
  • Strong architectural skills with a proactive, problem-solving mentality
  • Experience in data mining | AI development
  • Experience building ETL pipelines and working with big data engines
  • Exceptional collaboration skills to work with system software and AI expert teams
  • Eagerness to learn and adopt new technologies such as NVIDIA RAPIDS
  • Prior experience with large-scale real-time streaming, augmented reality, or data curation
  • Prior background with Spark
  • Exposure to the latest advances in AI, including Large Language Models, Vision-Language Models, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAGs)
  • Innovative results, including patents, publications, or open source contributions

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits

Company Overview

  • NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI. It was founded in 1993, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.nvidia.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • NVIDIA has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1247 in 2026, 1868 in 2025, 1353 in 2024, 976 in 2023, 835 in 2022, 601 in 2021, 529 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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