AI Engineering Jobs in San Francisco

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Scientist to lead the technical direction for synthetic data generation across its frontier model initiatives. This role involves defining and building open-source libraries within the NVIDIA NeMo ecosystem to create synthetic datasets for text, code, structured, and multimodal data. These datasets will be crucial for the pre- and post-training of large language models like Nemotron. The position blends hands-on software engineering with applied research in generative methods, requiring collaboration with various internal teams and external research labs.

$272k - $431k

NVIDIA is seeking software engineers for the CUDA Tile team to work on a new tile-based programming model for their GPUs. This role involves designing and implementing compiler transformations, developing MLIR-based dialects and lowering passes, and optimizing the performance of tile-based kernels across various NVIDIA GPU architectures. The work includes defining public APIs, crafting compiler and optimization techniques, and general software engineering tasks. NVIDIA is a leading technology company transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing, now focusing on AI to define the next era of computing.

$152k - $242k

NVIDIA is seeking a skilled engineer to enhance, automate, and scale its Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Non-Human Identity (NHI) capabilities to meet the demands of the agentic era. This role will focus on improving existing platforms, simplifying user and operator experiences, and strengthening secure access controls for infrastructure, automation, service identities, and agentic workflows. As AI agents, coding agents, and autonomous workflows become more prevalent, this position is crucial for ensuring that privileged and infrastructure access services can scale securely with robust identity, authorization, observability, and auditability.

$168k - $270k

NVIDIA is seeking a highly technical Engagement Lead to drive the integration of Generative and Agentic AI software with enterprise ISV partners. In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor to Software Platform Architects and unite teams behind a unified technical vision. You will remain hands-on, designing and shipping production agentic systems for demanding workloads while accelerating the adoption of NVIDIA's stack across key business initiatives. This position requires versatility at the intersection of platform strategy, a strong AI/ML background with hands-on execution, and the communication skills to engage with senior leaders. It's a high-impact role offering broad skill development and exposure to the cutting edge of Agentic AI, with insights directly shaping NVIDIA's product development.

$224k - $431k

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Engineer to define and build core agentic identity capabilities that enable trusted AI agents across the company's internal ecosystem. This hands-on role involves translating complex problems into practical designs, prototyping solutions, and collaborating across identity, security, platform, and application teams to bring infrastructure into production. The goal is to evolve identity and security controls, originally designed for human users, to safely and reliably support non-human and agent-driven workflows as AI agents access tools, call APIs, and perform multi-step operations.

$240k - $380k

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to specialize in Deep Learning Inference. This role involves designing, building, and optimizing GPU-accelerated software for AI applications, focusing on high-performance deep learning frameworks like SGLang and vLLM for efficient large-scale model serving and inference. You will contribute to improving these platforms, enabling the smooth deployment of advanced language models and working with the deep learning community to implement and release the latest algorithms. The work will concentrate on enhancing the performance of state-of-the-art LLM and Generative AI models across various NVIDIA accelerators, utilizing open-source tools and kernels for optimization.

$184k - $357k

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Developer Technology Engineer to work at the forefront of AI innovation, collaborating with industry partners and open-source projects to accelerate performance for agentic AI use cases. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the next era of enterprise and consumer AI by optimizing applications on RTX and DGX SoCs, influencing next-generation platforms, and providing technical guidance. You will be instrumental in identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks across various workloads, working closely with system software, GPU driver, architecture, and research teams.

$152k - $288k

NVIDIA is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead the new AI Safety & Security Engineering team. This role is foundational, focusing on building AI-powered tools to identify, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities. You will own the core harness architecture and establish engineering standards, guiding the program from prototypes to a production pipeline. Your technical roadmap will influence how NVIDIA designs, tests, and validates safety-critical AI systems. This position requires close collaboration with engineering managers, security partners, and evaluation teams, acting as a bridge between research and enterprise-grade software engineering. Teaching and mentorship are key components, involving design reviews and upholding high code quality and safety standards.

$320k - $489k

NVIDIA's Architecture group is seeking a GPU System Performance Architect passionate about GPU-accelerated deep learning, data analytics, and high-performance computing. This role involves designing and developing the next generation of GPU-accelerated computing systems, offering a significant impact within a dynamic, technology-focused company. You will contribute to innovative processor and system architectures, analyze system performance trade-offs using analytical models and simulators, and understand hardware-software interactions in large-scale data center deployments. Collaboration across software, product, and business teams will be key to guiding the future of GPU-accelerated cloud computing.

$224k - $357k

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal AI Workflow Engineer to join the Enterprise Integration and API Team. This role is at the forefront of AI-augmented engineering, utilizing AI-assisted tools and automation to accelerate development and delivery across the integration ecosystem. You will help build a developer-centric Unified Integration Framework that enables secure, self-service connectivity across systems and applications, with governed APIs, data access, and controlled agent connectivity to support AI application development.

$248k - $391k

NVIDIA's GPU SW Kernel organization is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to develop the next generation of AI systems for GPU software development. This role focuses on crafting agentic AI systems to enhance the quality and efficiency of GPU software, transforming promising projects into critical infrastructure. You will be part of a dynamic team that significantly impacts GPU release quality and sets new standards for AI-driven automation.

$184k - $357k

NVIDIA is seeking a motivated system software engineer with deep understanding of device drivers and strong C/C++ skills to work on the CUDA Driver. This core platform component accelerates general-purpose computation on the GPU. You will be an integral part of a team delivering features and improvements to realize the full potential of NVIDIA hardware across diverse workloads, including deep learning, scientific computation, data science, self-driving cars, video games, and virtual reality. You will use your design abilities, coding expertise, and creativity to craft elegant solutions to exciting problems and shape the future direction of CUDA.

$272k - $431k

NVIDIA is seeking a motivated system software engineer with deep understanding of device drivers and strong C/C++ skills to work on the CUDA Driver. This core component of our platform accelerates general-purpose computation on the GPU. You will be an integral part of a team delivering features and improvements to realize the full potential of NVIDIA hardware across diverse workloads, including deep learning, scientific computation, data science, gaming, and virtual reality. You will leverage your design abilities, coding expertise, and creativity to craft elegant solutions to exciting problems and shape the future direction of CUDA.

$184k - $357k

We are seeking senior engineers to contribute to the CUDA driver, a fundamental component for accelerating general-purpose computation on GPUs. This role involves enhancing features and improving performance to maximize NVIDIA hardware potential across diverse workloads, including deep learning, scientific computation, gaming, and virtual reality. The position requires strong system software programming, a deep understanding of operating systems and kernel programming, hardware architecture, and excellent communication skills. You will collaborate with hardware and software engineers to design, develop, debug, and deploy critical aspects of NVIDIA hardware and mobile system-on-chip devices. The work spans the entire development lifecycle, from design feedback and pre-silicon simulation to silicon bring-up and production software deployment.

$152k - $288k

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal SW Architect, Networking to build the future of AI data-centers. This role is tailored for those passionate about collective communication, vertical co-development of AI networks, and large model training scalability. Your work will drive innovation and contribute to large-scale production, making a real impact on the world. Join a team of forward-thinking and driven engineers, and contribute to a legacy of innovation.

$184k - $357k

We are seeking a motivated engineer to enhance the integration of APIs across our CUDA-X math library software stack into modern LLM and agentic AI workflows. Organizations worldwide leverage GPU-powered data centers for AI, data analytics, and scientific simulations, driving progress in fields like LLMs, computer vision, and autonomous vehicles. Our team develops the essential GPU-accelerated libraries and SDKs for these technologies. In this role, you will ensure that human engineers and AI agents can easily build high-performance applications by effectively utilizing CUDA-X libraries. We are looking for individuals with a unique combination of technical expertise, developer experience, and communication skills.

$152k - $288k

NVIDIA is seeking a senior applications engineer with a background in material science codes to accelerate AI-driven simulations for materials discovery. This role will contribute to the development of NVIDIA ALCHEMI, a key software pillar for the next era of scientific discovery, bridging traditional simulations and AI surrogates. You will transform cutting-edge research into practical software tools for scientists, working collaboratively across research, engineering, and product teams.

$168k - $322k

NVIDIA is at the forefront of the AI revolution, exploring the next frontier of Physical AI, which involves machines that can perceive, reason about, and act within the three-dimensional world. The NVIDIA Cosmos platform provides open foundation models for Physical AI, designed to interpret images, video, and text to create a structured understanding of physical scenes, including motion, object interactions, geometry, and physical context. These models serve as the reasoning layer for robots, autonomous vehicles, and smart infrastructure. The Cosmos Engineering team is responsible for developing the core capabilities behind these models and is seeking a Senior Deep Learning Engineer to lead the data engine and end-to-end training verification for 3D spatial reasoning and perception. This role involves ensuring models accurately learn and represent 3D spatial concepts, working closely with research scientists to translate hypotheses into measurable capabilities in shipped models, and focusing on the critical role of data and evaluations in achieving frontier model quality.

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We are seeking a skilled engineer to join our Autonomous Vehicles team, focusing on the L3/L4 autonomous-driving solution. You will be instrumental in developing a comprehensive, learned 3D/4D world model by fusing navigation, ego-motion, perception, and sensor signals. This role involves close collaboration with perception, prediction, planning, and simulation teams to create a world representation that is complete, temporally consistent, uncertainty-aware, and robust for challenging driving scenarios. Our vision is to develop a shared multimodal scene representation that supports road understanding, 3D object perception, motion prediction, and planning, aiming to achieve human-level AI for navigation in unconstrained environments.

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NVIDIA is seeking a leader in AI-enabled drug discovery science to coordinate research and development efforts. This role bridges RNA therapeutics, experimental data generation, computational modeling, and translational science. The ideal candidate is a hands-on researcher experienced in guiding scientific teams, making technical trade-offs, and ensuring alignment across experimental, data, model, and compute activities. You will be responsible for converting scientific objectives into executable plans, leading workstreams in data curation, machine learning, and platform engineering, and guiding closed-loop learning processes. This position requires establishing robust science-stream governance and providing clear reporting on progress, dependencies, and risks to program leadership.

$224k - $431k

NVIDIA is seeking a world-class computer architect to contribute to the development of future high-performance computing systems, with a focus on enhancing the power-constrained performance of the hardware. Ideal candidates will have a strong track record of understanding and analyzing memory systems architecture to improve performance per watt (perf/W) and performance per millimeter (perf/mm). A broad perspective across the field of computer architecture and depth in the area of power, performance, and area (PPA) analysis is highly desirable. NVIDIA has pioneered programmable GPUs and the CUDA language and is a world leader in high-performance computing technology, with aggressive plans for future processors. This position offers the opportunity to have a real impact in a fast-moving, technology-focused company.

$184k - $357k

We are seeking a mission-driven Developer Relations Manager focused on Foundational AI Research to engage leading academic labs advancing the next generation of AI models, systems, and methods. In this role, you will work directly with top researchers building frontier AI systems, including large language models, multimodal models, reasoning systems, training methods, inference systems, model serving, and scalable AI infrastructure. You will help researchers adopt NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing platforms to push the boundaries of model performance, efficiency, and scale.

$152k - $288k

We are seeking a highly technical and strategic Senior Technical Lead to join our team, focusing on engaging developer ecosystems across emerging technology domains such as Generative AI, Autonomous Vehicles, and Simulation Platforms. You will work directly with software solution providers, developers, and industry professionals to foster the adoption of NVIDIA’s advanced AI and computing platforms. The ideal candidate brings a blend of deep technical expertise and commercial go-to-market experience, combined with a passion for developer advocacy and a talent for communicating how NVIDIA technology can solve complex, real-world challenges.

$224k - $357k

Join our groundbreaking research team as we revolutionize the future of physical AI through advanced generative models. As a Research Scientist specializing in Generative AI for Physical AI, you will be at the forefront of developing next-generation algorithms that bridge the gap between virtual and physical realms. You will work with state-of-the-art technology and have access to massive computational resources to bring your ideas to life, shaping the future of AI where digital intelligence meets physical reality.

$168k - $265k