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Senior Site Reliability Engineer - HPC
Nvidia Corporation · 🇺🇸 3 Locations
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. USCIS also records 394 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- 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. 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 roles701 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).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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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Sponsor Radar — Nvidia Corporation
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. USCIS also records 394 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people. NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars. NVIDIA is looking for phenomenal people like you to help us accelerate the next wave of artificial intelligence. We’re looking for a Senior SRE to join our Compute Farm team and help build the next generation of our global services platform. At NVIDIA, you’ll keep critically important systems running while working on the technologies that are redefining computing. You’ll harness the power of AI to deliver groundbreaking solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems—and see your work have real, lasting impact! What you'll be doing: • Own SRE solutions end‑to‑end, from design and implementation to operation and continuous improvement, ensuring they integrate cleanly with HPC schedulers, storage, and network fabrics. • Use IaC(Infrastructure‑as‑Code) and config management to standardize and automate provisioning everywhere. • Deliver solutions in a globally distributed, multi‑cloud hybrid environment – On‑prem, AWS, GCP, and OCI. • Design for failure with redundancy, failure domains, progressive delivery, and strict change control. • Ensure the highest level of uptime and Quality of Service (QoS) for internal customers through operational excellence. • Conduct capacity management and planning to meet ongoing operational needs. • Detects performance issues and recommends solutions to maintain world‑class service quality. • Collaborate with various teams in a fast‑paced environment to ensure seamless project completion. • Participate in on-call, incident reviews, assist in root cause identification, and produce high-quality RCA reports. What we need to see: • B.S. degree in Computer Science or related technical field (or equivalent experience) with 5+ years professional experience building and supporting critical services. • Experience supporting large‑scale HPC clusters using Slurm, LSF or Kubernetes clusters, including setup, tuning, and troubleshooting. • Proficiency in modern CI/CD techniques, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for managing services. • Strong experience crafting large-scale infrastructure platforms for automated host lifecycle management, fleet reliability/auto-healing, E2E observability or data-driven operations (AIOps/ML-driven signals) that materially reduce manual intervention. • Proficient in monitoring, metrics, container management, and log collection tools. • 5+ years of coding/scripting experience in at least two high‑level programming languages such as Python, Go, Perl, or Ruby. • Mentored other engineers and influenced technical direction through design reviews, architecture documents, and strong partnership with product and leadership. • Creative problem solver with excellent debugging skills and strong communication and documentation abilities. Ways to stand out from the crowd: • Published technical write‑ups or talks (conference presentations, meetups, engineering blogs) that deep‑dive into real‑world reliability, observability, or large‑scale HPC/SRE problems and their solutions. • Maintainer or co‑maintainer responsibilities for an open source component used in production (plugins, operators, exporters, controllers, or SDKs) at large scale. Widel