Nuvacore
Developer Experience Software / Systems Reliability Engineer
Austin, TX
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$3,395 more — $143,395 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $143,395 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong software engineering in Python, Rust, Go, and/or shell: tested, reviewed, maintainable code, with infrastructure treated as software.
- Solid understanding of Linux operation system administration.
Responsibilities
- Build System Architecture:
- Design and own the build system that turns a large, hierarchical RTL and verification codebase into reproducible, incremental, cacheable builds.
- Design the pipelines that gate design changes, with a particular focus on build and test selection, so each change runs the smallest set of long-running tests that can catch its regressions.
- Model and schedule heterogeneous, long-running, resource-constrained jobs (hours-long, memory-heavy, license-gated) across the compute farm, and build the orchestration layer that sequences multi-stage workflows and surfaces their results.
- Decide how build artifacts, test outputs, and design data are stored, cached, versioned, and expired across distributed storage, including content-addressed caches, retention policies, and data locality on the farm.
- Instrument the flows with metrics, logs, and traces; define and track SLOs for turnaround time, flakiness, and failure attribution; drive root-cause fixes rather than reruns.
- Partner with design and verification engineers to understand their workflows.
- Build System Architecture: Design and own the build system that turns a large, hierarchical RTL and verification codebase into reproducible, incremental, cacheable builds.
- Continuous Integration: Design the pipelines that gate design changes, with a particular focus on build and test selection, so each change runs the smallest set of long-running tests that can catch its regressions.
- Reliability & Observability: Instrument the flows with metrics, logs, and traces; define and track SLOs for turnaround time, flakiness, and failure attribution; drive root-cause fixes rather than reruns.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with Bazel and/or Buck, specifically writing rules and macros.
- Experience with job scheduling for long-running, resource-constrained workloads (Slurm, LSF, Kubernetes, or similar).
- Experience with distributed storage systems and the tradeoffs they impose on consistency, locality, caching, and retention.
- Hands-on experience with EDA verification tools such as Synopsys VCS, Cadence Xcelium, and/or Jasper formal verification tools.
- Hands-on experience with EDA emulation platforms (Synopsys Zebu, Cadence Palladium)
Compensation
- $140k-$300k
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