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Nvidia Corporation

Senior HPC Site Reliability Engineer

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Sponsorship verdict

Sponsorship possible

One solid signal, not two. Worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.

  • Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 2,374 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first.
  • The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
  • No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area.
  • What Nvidia Corporation paid sponsored hires in similar roles701 certified filings for “Engineer Senior Systems Software” (Software Developers) in CA: $173k–$214k, median $190k.
  • Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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Employer is on a government sponsor record
The US Department of Labor certified 2,374 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
No salary bar for this route
H-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
What Nvidia Corporation paid sponsored hires in similar roles
701 certified filings for “Engineer Senior Systems Software” (Software Developers) in CA: $173k–$214k, median $190k. Most were filed at wage level IV (82%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).

US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).

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About the role

We are now looking for a Senior HPC Site Reliability Engineer to join our mission and continue improving our HPC infrastructure. A meaningful part of NVIDIA’s strength is our unique and advanced development tools and environments that enable our incredible pace of innovation. We are looking for architects to help us evolve the way our private compute cloud is architected and optimized.     What you will be doing:   • Provide leadership in the design and implementation of our large-scale compute cloud that enables the world's top chip modelers, designers, and deep learning experts to invent groundbreaking technology. • Identify architectural changes or completely innovative approaches in our cloud architecture and design.  • Help with strategic challenges we encounter, including: effective resource utilization in a heterogeneous compute environment, evolving our private/public cloud strategy, capacity modeling, and planning for multi-year growth and scaling across our global computing environment!     What we need to see:   • B.sc in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field or equivalent experience • 8+ years of experience designing and operating large scale compute infrastructure. • Experience with job schedulers such as IBM/Platform LSF, SGE, SLURM, Marathon, Chronos. • Solid understanding of cluster configuration managements tools – Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt. • Good experience providing compute services using a public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) • Strong script-writing skills: Python, Bash, Perl • Knowledge of and/or experience deploying PaaS microservices – Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes • Understanding of fast distributed and network attached storage solutions and Linux file systems, ability to recommend and implement solutions to improve OS performance and reliability. Ways to stand out from the crowd: • Linux certification from a well-known vendor - RedHat, Oracle, etc. • Prior experience managing large-scale Kubernetes deployment in production. • Strong skills in modern container networking and storage architecture.

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