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Senior AI Engineering Jobs

Senior AI engineering jobs from AI labs, startups and established tech companies, across LLM, AI agent, machine learning, research and infrastructure roles.

Senior roles take in senior, staff and principal positions: the people who own a system end to end, set technical direction and raise the bar for the team. Expect postings to ask for years of shipping software, and for AI work in production rather than only prototypes.

NVIDIA, Databricks and Salesforce have the most open roles here right now. AI Engineer roles are the largest group, at 31%. Of these, 14% can be done remotely and 44 say the company sponsors visas. The skills these postings ask for most are Python, AI Agents, LLM and C++.

Open roles
1,273
Typical salary
$190k - $300k
Median of 877 posted ranges
Newest role
19m ago

Hiring now

Skills these roles ask for

Latest senior AI engineering roles

Technical Staff: Medical Imaging AI

19m ago
M

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

The Human Health & Performance Systems Group is seeking an expert in medical imaging and AI to join their medical operations team. This team develops advanced medical technologies to address critical defense and civilian medical challenges, with a focus on improving austere and battlefield medicine. The role involves applying cutting-edge signal/image processing, deep learning, and data analysis techniques to develop AI-enabled system prototypes. You will collaborate with and lead multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, scientists, and clinicians to design and evaluate innovative medical imaging devices and human performance technologies, pushing the boundaries of medical technology.

Salary not listed

Lexington, MA, US onsite Full-time
PythonDeep Learning

Software Engineer - AI Tooling Infrastructure

4h ago
Supabase

Supabase

Supabase is seeking a Software Engineer, AI Tooling Infrastructure to join their AI Tooling team. This role focuses on building and operating the backend services that power Supabase's AI products, such as the Supabase MCP server and services supporting agent skills and the dashboard assistant. The position involves ensuring these services are reliable, correctly authorized, and observable, handling the unique traffic patterns of AI clients and agents. It's a systems and infrastructure-focused role, requiring hands-on building and operation rather than just advisory. The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced, asynchronous environments and is passionate about creating scalable developer tools.

Salary not listed

Remote, Global remote Full-time
DockerTypeScriptGo +4 more

Engineering Manager (Agent Engine)

12h ago
Perplexity AI

Perplexity AI

Perplexity is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow its highly driven Agent Engine team. This team designs and builds powerful agentic experiences, including Perplexity Computer, the Comet ecosystem, and the Agent API. The role involves bringing AI expertise, sharp product intuition, and strong leadership skills to advance the frontier of what agents can accomplish for millions of users. The manager will lead, grow, and support the team in solving open problems in AI, such as designing agent harnesses, leveraging action and decision models, providing excellent cross-environment experiences, developing secure agentic capabilities, and optimizing data representations for agent-environment interactions.

$300k - $485k

San Francisco onsite Full-time
PythonTypeScriptGo +4 more

AI Researcher/Prototyping Engineer

19m ago
M

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

The Artificial Intelligence Technology and Systems Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory is seeking motivated individuals to contribute to world-class research in artificial intelligence with real impact on national security. The group specializes in machine learning (ML) algorithms, technologies, and systems that extract and analyze information from multimedia data, and has expanded to include impactful ML solutions for cybersecurity. As a recognized leader in both basic and applied AI/ML, the group shapes emerging AI fields and drives efforts in AI Assurance across the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. A hallmark of their work is a focus on operational relevance, designing and evaluating AI/ML systems using realistic datasets and metrics, and partnering directly with intelligence analysts and cyber operators to ensure rapid transition of technologies into real-world, mission-critical systems.

Salary not listed

Lexington, MA, US onsite Full-time
LangChainPythonPyTorch +3 more

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)

12h ago
Perplexity AI

Perplexity AI

The AI Acceleration team is dedicated to making Perplexity the premier platform for building and deploying AI agents. We develop the essential infrastructure that engineers and agents rely on, while also pioneering novel methods for agents to write, test, review, and ship code. Our work empowers teams to transition from concept to production more rapidly, without sacrificing quality or reliability. We oversee the entire development lifecycle at Perplexity, from the initial coding environment to the production deployment systems. This encompasses local and cloud coding environments, build and test infrastructure, code review processes, and release management. Furthermore, we are constructing autonomous software development systems where agents handle increasingly complex engineering tasks, supported by explicit evaluation, verification, and safety protocols. We are responsible for both the underlying infrastructure and the workflows that ensure these systems are effective.

$250k - $405k

San Francisco onsite Full-time
PythonGoRust +4 more

Senior Deep Learning Compiler Engineer - PyTorch

12h ago
N

NVIDIA

Join NVIDIA at the forefront of AI compiler technology and help shape the future of accelerated computing. We are building Thunder, an ambitious source-to-source compiler designed to unlock outstanding performance for PyTorch models on NVIDIA GPUs. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the PyTorch ecosystem, working with modern compiler stacks like PyTorch 2.0's TorchDynamo and TorchInductor to create powerful, open-source solutions. If you are driven to solve complex problems and want to make a foundational impact on the AI ecosystem, apply to join our collaborative and innovative team.

€112k - €194k

Germany, Berlin onsite Full-time
PythonPyTorchDeep Learning +1 more

Senior Developer Relations Manager - EMEA AI Natives

12h ago
N

NVIDIA

We are seeking a highly technical and strategic Senior Developer Relations Manager to join our team, focusing on engaging developer ecosystems within emerging AI technology domains across EMEA. In this role, you will collaborate directly with software solution providers, developers, and industry professionals to drive the adoption of NVIDIA's advanced AI and computing platforms. The ideal candidate possesses a strong blend of deep technical expertise, commercial go-to-market experience, and a passion for developer advocacy, effectively communicating how NVIDIA technology can solve complex, real-world challenges.

€83k - €190k

Italy, Remote remote Full-time

Senior Deep Learning Engineer, Accuracy Evaluation

12h ago
N

NVIDIA

We are seeking senior engineers to pioneer new methodologies for accurately assessing the performance and capabilities of ground-breaking deep learning models, including LLMs, RAG, agents, and vision models. You will collaborate across the organization to bring the latest flagship models from our community and partners to life. This role offers an outstanding opportunity to craft the future of AI at a fast-growing company at the forefront of the AI revolution. Join our team of world-class software engineers and partners to deliver the most advanced models with lightning-fast inference. You'll work on the most powerful, enterprise-grade GPU clusters capable of hundreds of PetaFLOPS and gain early access to unreleased hardware, making a direct impact on NVIDIA's roadmap and the broader AI landscape!

$375k - $650k

Poland, Remote remote Full-time
RAGDeep Learning

Senior Developer Relations Manager, AI Natives

12h ago
N

NVIDIA

We are seeking a highly technical and strategic Senior Developer Relations Manager to join our team, focusing on engaging developer ecosystems across emerging AI technology domains. In this role, you will work directly with software solution providers, developers, and industry professionals to foster the adoption of 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 communicating how technology can solve complex, real-world challenges.

$900k - $1911k

Sweden, Remote remote Full-time

Senior Software Developer, AI Networking

12h ago
N

NVIDIA

We are seeking an enthusiastic software engineer to join our AI networking acceleration team. You will work on a groundbreaking open-source library, utilizing hardware offloads, GPU Kernels, and RDMA network cards. Our product is a performance-oriented, low-level infrastructure designed to revolutionize inference. We foster a collaborative and innovative team environment, offering rewarding opportunities to work with industry leaders on transformative products.

$293k - $507k

Romania, Remote +1 location remote Full-time
RustLinuxC++

Senior Applied Research Scientist – GPU Native Numerical Algorithms

12h ago
N

NVIDIA

NVIDIA is seeking an Applied Research Scientist to join its computational engineering applied research team. This role focuses on designing and developing GPU-native numerical methods to enhance the speed, reliability, and usability of engineering simulations across NVIDIA platforms. You will contribute to the numerical foundations for emerging AI-native engineering algorithms by exploring solver algorithms, building research prototypes, and evaluating different approaches. The objective is to rethink traditional CPU algorithms for massive parallelism, hierarchical memory, reduced synchronization, mixed precision, tensor-core computation, and multi-GPU systems, connecting numerical analysis, accelerated computing, software engineering, and AI-native methods.

€121k - €256k

Germany, Remote remote Full-time
PythonC++

Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform

3mo ago
Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries

Anduril's Continuous Integration platform is crucial for enabling all engineering teams to build, test, and deploy products globally. In this role, you will ensure this platform is reliable and fast, helping to build and deliver fully automated, faster, and more reliable CI pipelines. Your primary focus will be on functional and operational improvements that directly speed up the build, test, and deployment experience for critical business lines, with work that will compound across other products. You will deliver against a shared roadmap, own epics end-to-end, and instrument metrics to track improvements in the CI experience. This role involves working across a complex delivery ecosystem, multi-stage release pipelines, and Cloud and Robot environments where correctness has measurable consequences. If you enjoy building essential infrastructure for other engineers on systems that ship real defense technology, this is the role for you.

$191k - $254k

Washington, District of Columbia, United States +3 locations onsite Full-time
DockerKubernetesPython +7 more

Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform

1y ago
Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on transforming military capabilities with advanced technology. The Developer Platform team builds critical infrastructure to enable engineering teams to deliver mission-critical defense systems. This role will optimize release pipelines, CI/CD workflows, and develop productivity-enhancing tools. You will architect data infrastructure for engineering metrics and directly impact the productivity of the entire software engineering ecosystem, supporting Anduril's mission to solve critical defense challenges through advanced technology.

$220k - $292k

Seattle, Washington, United States +2 locations onsite Full-time
PythonTypeScriptGo +4 more

Senior Quality Engineer, Applied AI

1mo ago
Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on transforming military capabilities with advanced technology. The CorpTech Platform team, an internal engineering force multiplier, drives innovation through strategic investments in data, software, QA, ERP, and AI infrastructure. This role is part of a team building the foundations for CorpOS and ArsenalOS, unifying systems and accelerating development velocity. We are also pioneering an autonomous enterprise by integrating AI directly into the engineering lifecycle, making this a strategic engine for scaling business systems with rigor and adaptability.

$146k - $194k

Boston, Massachusetts, United States +2 locations onsite Full-time
PythonLLMPyTorch +9 more

Senior Deep Learning Scientist, Multimodal Agentic RL

1d ago
N

NVIDIA

NVIDIA is seeking Senior Deep Learning Scientists to advance their work in streaming and agentic multimodal AI. This role involves developing models capable of reasoning, planning, and acting across diverse modalities, with a focus on defining core algorithmic improvements for multimodal foundation models. You will contribute to high-impact, large language models and multimodal AI products that enhance user experiences, working within the Nemotron LLM team to solve real-world agentic AI challenges.

$184k - $288k

US, CA, Santa Clara onsite Full-time
PythonLLMAI Agents +6 more

Senior HPC Support Engineer - Ethernet and AI Infrastructure

1d ago
N

NVIDIA

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior HPC Support Engineer specializing in Ethernet and AI Infrastructure to engage with prestigious customers. This role involves providing comprehensive solutions for sophisticated installations, maintenance, and operations of groundbreaking networking products within data center and networking technologies. As part of the NVEX Global Technical Support team, you will be a conscientious communicator focused on resolving issues and ensuring high customer satisfaction. A significant aspect of the role includes collaborating with Engineering, Marketing, and Support teams on technical matters.

$120k - $207k

US, WA, Redmond +2 locations onsite Full-time
AnthropicDockerKubernetes +4 more

Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer, Physical Infrastructure

1mo ago
Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer to lead the vision, execution, and long-term stability of how the company trains with GPUs at scale. This role involves taking ownership of cluster robustness, ensuring high-performance GPU systems are highly available, fault-tolerant, and resilient for ML platform and research teams. The primary focus is on logical stability and automated resilience, building self-healing mechanisms, tuning networking, and optimizing scheduling to ensure massive-scale training infrastructure runs seamlessly and scales efficiently.

$166k - $220k

Costa Mesa, California, United States +1 location onsite Full-time
KubernetesDistributed TrainingComputer Vision +2 more

Senior Software Engineer, AI Networking

1d ago
N

NVIDIA

Join NVIDIA’s Hyperscale Engineering team to develop networking solutions for large-scale AI infrastructure. You will work with customers and engineering teams to build, integrate, and improve software for BlueField and ConnectX platforms. Your work will span software development, system integration, troubleshooting, and performance analysis, helping customers move from initial testing to production deployment.

$184k - $357k

US, CA, Santa Clara +1 location onsite Full-time
PythonAICUDA +3 more

Senior GPU Memory Architect

1d ago
N

NVIDIA

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

US, CA, Santa Clara onsite Full-time
GPUC++C

Senior Engineer, Local AI - Agents and Systems

1d ago
N

NVIDIA

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

US, CA, Santa Clara onsite Full-time
Meta LlamaLangChainPython +6 more

Manager, Data and AI Engineering

1d ago
N

NVIDIA

We are seeking a Manager of Data & AI Engineering to lead the development of our next-generation autonomous data intelligence platform for Supply Chain Operations. This role requires a blend of deep technical expertise, strong delivery leadership, and people management skills. You will be responsible for identifying high-impact opportunities, architecting, building, and productionizing solutions that deliver significant business value. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in architecture and engineering, coupled with the ability to manage a high-performing team and collaborate effectively with business stakeholders to translate operational challenges into innovative data and AI solutions.

$200k - $322k

US, CA, Santa Clara onsite Full-time
AWSPythonLLM +5 more

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Perception - Autonomous Driving

1d ago
N

NVIDIA

NVIDIA is seeking an extraordinary Senior Perception Engineer to develop and productize autonomous driving solutions. This role focuses on creating end-to-end perception modules responsible for understanding traffic signals, signs, road markings, and construction objects, crucial for driving without reliance on HD maps. The goal is to enhance the robustness, accuracy, and efficiency of these solutions to enable autonomous driving in all conditions. You will be instrumental in designing perception systems, applying deep learning for various traffic-related tasks, developing generalizable approaches for diverse driving scenarios, and driving data-driven development by collaborating with data collection and labeling teams. Leveraging data simulation and augmentation will be key to solving extreme scenarios, and you will be responsible for productizing these solutions to meet stringent safety, latency, and software robustness requirements.

$184k - $357k

US, CA, Santa Clara onsite Full-time
PythonPyTorchDeep Learning +5 more

Staff+ Software Engineer, Backend

6mo ago
Anthropic

Anthropic

Anthropic is seeking experienced, product-minded backend engineers to lead the development of systems powering user experiences across their API, Claude Code, and Claude.ai. In this role, you will independently scope complex, multi-month projects, guide technical and product decisions, and drive alignment with product, engineering, and research teams. You will make critical architectural decisions impacting the reliability and scalability of systems serving hundreds of thousands of users, and design processes to enhance team effectiveness. You will remain hands-on with code and models, contributing directly to Anthropic's mission of creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

$405k - $485k

San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY onsite
Anthropic

Staff Software Engineer, Business Systems & Integrations

17h ago
G

Groq

Groq is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer, Business Systems & Integrations to architect, build, and scale the core software engines connecting our physical AI infrastructure operations with enterprise financial and business platforms. This is a pure software engineering position where you will spend 60% to 70% of your time writing production code, establishing deep system architectures, building production APIs, and implementing automated data pipelines from the ground up. Your primary focus will be bridging physical infrastructure life cycles with Groq's core financial ledger, taking complete architectural ownership of complex integration services, custom scanning and asset applications, and event-driven workflows.

$270k - $318k

Dallas, United States onsite Full-time
PythonTypeScriptJavaScript +7 more

Questions about senior AI engineering jobs

How many senior AI engineering jobs are open?
There are 1,273 open senior AI engineering jobs on AiRagJobs right now, the newest posted 19m ago. New roles are added every day.
How much do senior AI engineering jobs pay?
The median posted salary range is $190k–$300k, from 877 jobs here that list pay. That's base salary; equity and bonuses aren't included.
Which companies are hiring for senior AI engineering jobs?
NVIDIA, Databricks, Salesforce, Anthropic and Scale AI have the most open roles right now.
What skills do senior AI engineering jobs ask for?
The skills these postings ask for most are Python, AI Agents, LLM, C++ and Kubernetes. At this level, postings look for having shipped them in production, not just used them.