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NVIDIA · 7 hours ago

Senior High Performance AI Engineer

positionCalifornia, United States
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level
money$224K/yr - $356K/yr
date6+ years exp

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for over 25 years. They are seeking a Senior High Performance AI Engineer to build groundbreaking multi-agent systems for the CUDA ecosystem, developing new agent abstractions and collaborating closely with internal teams to enhance NVIDIA products.

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Responsibilities

Design, build and optimize agentic AI systems for the CUDA ecosystem
Co-design agentic system solutions with software, hardware and algorithm teams; influence and adopt new capabilities as they become available
Develop reproducible, high-fidelity evaluation frameworks covering performance, quality and developer productivity
Collaborate across the AI stack—from hardware through compilers/toolchains, kernels/libraries, frameworks, distributed training, and inference/serving—and with model/agent teams

Qualification

AI systems developmentC/C++ programmingPython programmingGPU programmingDeep learning frameworksPerformance optimizationMulti-agent systemsCollaborationProblem-solving

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
6 years+ 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)

Preferred

MS or PhD preferred
Track record building/evaluating deep learning models, coding agents and developer tooling
Demonstrated ability to optimize and deploy high-performance models, including on resource-constrained platforms
Deep expertise in GPU performance optimizations, evidenced by benchmark wins or published results
Publications or open-source leadership in deep learning, multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, or AI systems; contributions to widely used repos or standards

Benefits

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Company

NVIDIA

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NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.
dateFounded in 1993
location
Santa Clara, California, USA
people-size10001+ employees
web-link
https://www.nvidia.com

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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$4.09B
Key Investors
ARPA-EARK Investment ManagementSoftBank Vision Fund
2023-05-09Grant· $5M
2022-08-09Post Ipo Equity· $65M
2021-02-18Post Ipo Equity

Leadership Team

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Jensen Huang
Founder and CEO
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Michael Kagan
Chief Technology Officer
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