Senior AI Agent Engineer Jobs

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Research Engineer to join their AI Developer Tools organization. This role focuses on building AI coding agents, models, datasets, and evaluations to empower CUDA developers with AI-powered coding tools. The team operates at the forefront of AI development, working on novel coding agents, fine-tuning code LLMs, publishing benchmarks, and contributing datasets for foundation models. This position offers the opportunity to apply AI research depth to a fast-paced, shipping-oriented team, influencing new projects and collaborating with product teams to integrate research into features used by both internal and external customers.

$224k - $431k

CoreWeave

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will work directly with customers, embedding within their AI teams to help them build and deploy successful AI agents using the W&B Weave developer toolkit. This is a hands-on, customer-facing engineering role for individuals who thrive in high-impact environments, enjoy solving open-ended technical problems, and want to shape how leading organizations build with AI.

$182k - $242k

DigitalOcean is building the infrastructure that enables developers to build, run, and scale AI-powered applications and autonomous coding agents. As a Senior Software Engineer on the MARS (Managed Agent Runtime Services) team, you will help build a production-grade platform for running coding agents and agentic workflows securely, reliably, and at scale. You will design and implement core components of our managed agent runtime, including agent framework integrations, execution environments, control-plane APIs, event-driven infrastructure, and developer-facing APIs and tools. You will work across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and emerging agentic AI technologies to make it easy for developers to build sophisticated agents without having to manage the underlying infrastructure. We are looking for a strong engineer who combines deep software engineering fundamentals with pragmatic architectural judgment, end-to-end ownership, and a passion for simplifying complex technology for developers.

$167k - $209k

At NVIDIA OpenShell, we are building the runtime infrastructure for secure, scalable, production-grade AI agents. As an OpenShell Research Engineer, you will help bring the latest advances in agentic systems into the runtime, tools, and workflows that enterprise builders rely on. This role sits at the intersection of research, product, and engineering, requiring you to identify promising methods from academia and industry, validate their impact through prototypes and benchmarks, and help integrate the best ideas into the product.

$184k - $288k

This role focuses on building AI agents that learn and improve over time by incorporating feedback, correcting mistakes, and optimizing towards user-defined outcomes. As a Staff AI/ML Engineer on the Applied Research team, you will lead the technical direction for feedback-driven learning within DigitalOcean's agentic systems. This includes owning the roadmap for reward modeling, preference optimization, reinforcement learning, and the necessary evaluation infrastructure to ensure these systems are effective. You will be responsible for shipping research into production, setting technical direction, running large-scale experiments, and closing the loop between user signals and model behavior.

$217k - $271k

At NVIDIA, we are at the forefront of AI innovation, aiming to define the next era of computing where our GPUs power intelligent systems. As a Developer Technology Engineer, you will collaborate with industry partners and contribute to open-source projects to enable professional agentic AI workflows at the edge, leveraging NVIDIA's RTX and DGX platforms. This role provides a unique opportunity to work with exceptional talent and significantly impact the evolving landscape of enterprise and consumer agentic AI.

$152k - $288k

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 Principal 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.

$272k - $431k

Move the needle in testing NVIDIA's embedded software! As a highly skilled and motivated senior software developer, you will push the boundaries for testing and automation. This role offers an outstanding opportunity to leave your mark on our verification strategy and influence our future test automation system. You will have a unique opportunity of pushing the boundaries and ensuring the perfect performance of Nvidia's embedded software systems where your contributions will directly impact the verification strategy and quality. Priorities do often change in a fast-paced environment like ours.

$152k - $253k

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to define the technical strategy for autonomous AI-driven enterprise operations. This role involves setting the architecture to transform IT from manual workflows into agentic platforms operating at a global scale. As a senior individual contributor, you will tackle complex technical challenges, establish industry standards for other engineering organizations, and make architectural decisions with long-term impact. Exceptional communication skills are essential for success in this influential position.

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Join the AI & Automation Supply Chain Business Transformations team at NVIDIA Operations to develop the future of agentic AI at scale. As a Senior AI Engineer, you will codify decision logic and implement decision intelligence, ensuring AI Agents deliver trusted, scalable, and innovative value. This is a unique opportunity to define AI agents for Supply Chain Operations within a leading AI company. If you are passionate about AI innovation and Supply Chain transformation, contribute to the future of agentic AI.

$224k - $357k

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Staff AI Engineer to join its Finance AI team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, evaluating, and operating AI-powered applications, agents, and automation critical to Finance operations. You will lead a team of coding agents, integrate new tools and technologies, and apply deep business knowledge to solve complex problems with AI. This is primarily an applied engineering position focused on leveraging foundation models, with opportunities to demonstrate the advantages of customized models over standard prompting and retrieval techniques.

$200k - $322k

NVIDIA's TensorRT team is seeking a Senior AI-Native Systems Software Engineer to lead a groundbreaking initiative focused on making TensorRT the global standard for out-of-framework inference. This role involves developing a novel, AI-native framework designed to leverage AI agents for producing high-performance, high-quality C++ software at scale. The ideal candidate is a systems-thinking C++ engineer passionate about advancing agentic development frameworks, staying abreast of deep learning advancements, and enhancing user experience through rapid model onboarding.

$152k - $288k

As a Senior Engineering Manager for Agentic Systems & Platform Architecture, you will lead the strategy and execution for NVIDIA’s agentic developer platform. This role involves deeply understanding how teams across the company build, evaluate, and improve autonomous agents, and translating these evolving patterns into scalable platform capabilities. You will identify gaps and friction, drive rapid proof-of-concepts on emerging agent constructs and ecosystem tools, and operationalize the best approaches into reusable building blocks, integrations, and governance mechanisms. The goal is to accelerate developer productivity and agent quality, enabling teams to safely ship more autonomous systems at NVIDIA scale.

$272k - $431k

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior AI Security Engineer to join their Agentic & AI Cybersecurity Research team. This role focuses on building AI-powered cybersecurity tooling, seamlessly interfacing humans, models, and computing artifacts to create secure environments. The engineer will transform complex problems and prototypes into practical, production-ready solutions, collaborating with research, security, product, and partner teams to develop robust codebases and accelerate AI cybersecurity advancements.

$184k - $357k

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'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 an AI Engineering Manager to join the Finance AI team. This role involves leading a team of AI engineers to develop AI solutions for Finance operations and evaluate external finance AI solutions. You will guide your team in applying technology to solve complex problems, direct agent development, and integrate new tools and technologies. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact by defining the next era of computing through AI within the finance domain.

$200k - $322k

NVIDIA is at the forefront of AI, powering the next era of computing with its GPUs. This role focuses on understanding how evolving Large Language Model (LLM) architectures and inference workloads map to hardware, which is critical for designing efficient AI systems. The team utilizes simulation and agentic engineering to analyze emerging architectures and inform hardware and software development decisions.

$152k - $288k

Join the new Agentic Engineering team, focused on automating code generation, testing, and tuning across NVIDIA's frameworks, compilers, and developer tooling. This is a greenfield opportunity offering foundational technical influence within a high-autonomy team. You will partner directly with early-adopter teams to translate complex requirements into durable, scalable infrastructure, applying modern AI to the craft of engineering itself. The role involves identifying friction points where agentic workflows can have the highest impact and iterating with teams as they integrate agents into production.

$224k - $357k

NVIDIA is building a new kind of agentic engineering system to ensure the correctness, security, and reliability of software for safety-critical applications like autonomous vehicles and medical robots. This system aims to translate precise specifications into production-ready C/C++ and Rust software, continuously validating the results and providing evidence for readiness. The role involves leading a core team to develop this capability, combining AI agents, systems engineering, deterministic validation, security, and functional-safety practices into a production platform.

$272k - $431k

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.

$184k - $357k

We are seeking a Senior Engineer to design, build, and scale the infrastructure that powers NVIDIA's AI agent ecosystem. This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, developer platforms, and agentic AI, focusing on building foundational services that enable teams across the company to develop, deploy, orchestrate, and operate autonomous AI agents at production scale. You will be instrumental in creating the core platform that supports the full agent lifecycle, from registration to teardown, ensuring robust and scalable operations.

$200k - $391k

This role focuses on establishing and implementing a comprehensive evaluation strategy for autonomous agents at NVIDIA. The goal is to ensure that changes to agents, their underlying models, harnesses, tools, and skills lead to improvements rather than regressions. You will design systems that allow agents to leverage evaluation results for self-improvement, building trust in the process of autonomous evolution. This involves creating robust evaluation frameworks, mining production data for insights, and developing realistic simulation environments for safe, end-to-end agent task execution.

$224k - $431k