Senior High Performance AI Engineer
$184k - $357k • Remote • US, CA, Santa Clara
Posted 4d ago
Job Location
US, CA, Santa Clara
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Categories
AI Agent Engineer
About the job
NVIDIA is seeking a Senior High Performance AI Engineer to develop groundbreaking multi-agent systems within the CUDA ecosystem. This role involves building innovative agentic runtimes and compiler-integrated orchestration that leverage NVIDIA's software stack to accelerate modern agent workloads powered by foundational models. You will contribute to new agent abstractions, GPU-centric runtimes, and system solutions that enhance agent planning, tool-use, and code generation. The position requires close collaboration with internal NVIDIA software and hardware teams to integrate cutting-edge developments into NVIDIA products.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize agentic AI systems for the CUDA ecosystem.
- Co-design agentic system solutions with software, hardware, and algorithm teams, influencing and adopting new capabilities.
- Develop reproducible, high-fidelity evaluation frameworks for performance, quality, and developer productivity.
- Collaborate across the AI stack, including hardware, compilers, kernels, libraries, frameworks, distributed training, inference/serving, and model/agent teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience); MS or PhD preferred.
- 8+ years of industry or academia experience with AI systems development.
- Exposure to building foundational models, agents, or orchestration frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks and modern inference stacks.
- Strong C/C++ and Python programming skills.
- Solid software engineering fundamentals.
- Experience with GPU programming and performance optimization (CUDA or equivalent).
Benefits
- Competitive salaries
- Generous benefits package
- Equity