AI Engineering Jobs in San Francisco

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

NVIDIA is seeking a motivated security engineer to join the GPU Software team. This role will focus on automating the enforcement of security standards across all software releases, leveraging both traditional tools and AI agents, and promoting their adoption throughout the organization. The ideal candidate will be instrumental in integrating AI agents into security workflows, identifying manual processes for reinvention, and guiding proven agentic workflows from development to production. This position offers the opportunity to translate security requirements into automated checks for a wide range of software, from firmware to user-mode applications, and to own and maintain the release security scanning pipeline.

$152k - $242k

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to focus on AI Inference Performance, advancing innovative LLM and VLM inference on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems. This hands-on role involves pushing workloads to practical performance limits, delivering measurable gains in latency, throughput, efficiency, and scale. You will translate performance models and profiler data into working code, collaborating with various teams and contributing improvements to open-source inference engines. Your work will directly impact production deployments and help shape future NVIDIA platforms.

$184k - $357k

NVIDIA is seeking an outstanding individual to join our platform SWQA team as a Platform Software Validation Engineer (SDET). This role involves developing and executing test plans for NVIDIA HGX/DGX/MGX platforms, covering servers, OS, firmware, and CUDA software stacks. You will be responsible for installing and testing various systems, OS, server firmware, and software stacks, and driving root cause analysis for reliability and validation test failures. The position requires building and developing server and OS level automation frameworks and tests, reviewing partner and supplier test results, and managing the bug lifecycle within an agile development team.

$140k - $270k

We are seeking a Developer Relations Manager to be the primary liaison between our developers, customers, and the Jetson SW stack. This role involves guiding users through the platform, including BSP, security, OTA, real-time workloads, mixed-criticality systems, AI libraries, and agentic AI. You will work directly with developers and customers to help them build and deploy optimized edge AI and robotics solutions on Jetson. Simultaneously, you will gather their challenges and insights to inform our engineering and product teams, directly shaping the platform's roadmap.

$184k - $357k

NVIDIA is seeking a dedicated and creative Security Engineer to join our GPU System Software team. In this role, you will be instrumental in developing mitigations, conducting security research, and building advanced security platforms and frameworks to identify vulnerabilities in complex systems software. This is an exceptional opportunity to contribute to the security of foundational technologies in gaming, professional graphics, and cloud computing, as well as AI, data centers, and healthcare. You will be part of an inclusive team focused on maintaining an industry-leading security posture for groundbreaking products.

$152k - $288k

Joining NVIDIA's DGX Cloud AI Efficiency Team means advancing the performance, efficiency, and resiliency of large-scale AI workloads. You will help AI researchers and platform teams understand end-to-end behavior across GPUs, networking, storage, and software stacks. Your work will shape scalable DGX Cloud systems, turn complex measurements into prioritized engineering decisions, and continuously raise the performance and reliability of AI workloads. Join a technically diverse team of infrastructure experts to unlock more efficient AI at scale.

$224k - $431k

Joining NVIDIA's DGX Cloud AI Efficiency Team means contributing to the infrastructure that powers our innovative AI research. This team focuses on developing tools for optimizing efficiency and resiliency of AI workloads, including pre-training, post-training, and inference. Our objective is to deliver a stable, scalable environment for AI researchers, providing them with the necessary resources and scale to foster innovation. As a senior DGX Cloud AI Infrastructure software engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on innovative technologies that power the future of AI and data science and be part of a dynamic, diverse, and supportive team that values learning and growth.

$184k - $357k

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the bring-up, triage, benchmarking, analysis, and optimization of distributed training and inference workloads across NVIDIA GPU platforms at the largest scales. In this role, you will set technical direction for communication libraries, model frameworks, and inference/training stacks to ensure state-of-the-art LLM workloads run efficiently and reliably at scale. You will lead deep performance and reliability investigations on multi-GPU and multi-node deployments, define how new platforms are benchmarked and qualified, and build the resilience and failure-attribution capabilities essential for large clusters. This is a hands-on, senior individual-contributor role for an engineer experienced at the intersection of deep learning systems, GPU performance, distributed computing, and large-scale operations.

$184k - $357k

Our team builds AI-driven software systems for Circuit Design, combining automation algorithms, deep learning models, and agentic workflows to accelerate end-to-end design automation. We are looking for an Applied Machine Learning Engineer to join our integral team in the Circuit Solutions Group. You will work within a multi-functional team on various projects involving pre-silicon and post-silicon custom circuit design, circuit/layout optimization, and Spice correlation. This role involves researching and implementing frontier solutions in electronic design automation and building innovative agentic AI solutions for VLSI design problems. You will be responsible for analyzing problems and datasets, validating hypotheses, and designing and building models and algorithms to achieve desired quality of results.

$116k - $230k

Artificial intelligence is shifting from passive help to autonomous, always-on workflows. Our mission is to make this change seamless, efficient, and secure for millions globally. We seek a Senior Engineer to lead technical efforts in deploying advanced AI agent frameworks and local runtimes on Windows and NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs. You will guide development so open-source AI agents operate locally, safely, and efficiently on consumer PCs. By combining powerful local inference with strong privacy routers and sandboxed execution, you will help develop the foundation of the desktop AI operating system.

$184k - $357k

Join NVIDIA's CAD Infrastructure team to build a next-generation software platform for semiconductor design. This role involves applying innovative graph neural network infrastructure to process massive graphs and contributing to every phase from architecture to implementation. You will compose the future of computing and make a lasting impact on the world by developing advanced tools and systems.

$168k - $311k

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior AI Compute Engineer to join its Infrastructure Specialists team. This role involves working with academic, commercial, and government groups globally to revolutionize deep learning and data analytics, and to power data centers. You will be part of a team building some of the world's largest and fastest AI Compute systems. The position requires strong interpersonal skills to interact with customers, partners, and internal teams to analyze, define, and implement large-scale AI Compute projects, encompassing networking, system design, automation, and validation.

$148k - $288k

NVIDIA Research is seeking a world-class generative AI researcher to join its fundamental generative AI research team. The team focuses on advancing generative AI methods for scientific applications, including biomolecular design (small molecule, protein, and RNA design). The role involves fundamental research with the freedom to conduct ground-breaking work, aiming to push the boundaries of generative models and create real-world impact. Researchers will collaborate with a talented team that consistently publishes at top venues in machine learning and AI for science.

$168k - $265k

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Perception Engineer to lead the design and productization of next-generation autonomous driving perception stacks. This senior individual contributor role involves setting technical direction for 3D obstacle perception, driving cross-functional execution, and mentoring engineers. The role requires deep hands-on involvement in architecture, algorithms, and implementation, with a focus on modern transformer-based, multi-modal, and vision-language techniques. The goal is to build intelligent machines that can perceive, reason, and solve complex problems using GPU-accelerated deep learning.

$272k - $431k

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Perception Engineer to design and productize the next generation of autonomous driving perception systems. This role focuses on the core 3D obstacle perception pipeline, involving architecture and algorithm design, with a hands-on approach to implementation using modern transformer-based, multi-modal, and vision-language techniques. You will contribute to the development of state-of-the-art deep learning models for obstacle detection and tracking, leveraging multi-camera and multi-sensor fusion. The position requires defining objectives, prototyping architectures, running experiments, and adhering to best practices for training and evaluation, including techniques like large-scale pretraining and parameter-efficient fine-tuning. You will also help define and maintain performance metrics, analyze large datasets to identify failure modes, and contribute to the data strategy for perception, including model-assisted workflows and model-in-the-loop tooling. Collaboration with safety, systems, and software teams is essential to ensure solutions meet product requirements for safety, latency, resource usage, and robustness for large-scale deployment.

$184k - $357k

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Radar Perception Engineer to contribute to the design and productization of their next-generation autonomous driving perception stack. This role involves working on the core 3D radar and multi-modal obstacle perception pipeline, focusing on architecture and algorithm design. The engineer will be hands-on with implementation, including modern transformer-based, radar-centric foundation models, and multi-sensor fusion techniques.

$224k - $357k

We are seeking software engineers to develop next-generation high-speed interconnect technologies for GPU and high-performance computing servers. This role involves close collaboration with hardware architects, silicon designers, and platform software experts to drive innovation in factories and data centers. The ideal candidate will possess strong C++ programming skills, a deep understanding of networking concepts, systems software fundamentals, and current hardware architecture. Excellent communication and meticulous engineering practices are essential for providing robust and efficient solutions to validate and test next-generation processors.

$184k - $357k

NVIDIA is seeking an AI Compute Engineer to join its Infrastructure Specialists team. This role involves working on some of the world's largest and fastest AI Compute systems, supporting academic, commercial, and government groups. The engineer will interact with customers, partners, and internal teams to analyze, define, and implement large-scale AI Compute projects, encompassing networking, system design, automation, and validation.

$124k - $196k