AI Agent Runtime Engineer (Remote) - Research to Production

NVIDIA Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 184,000 - 288,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA OpenShell is hiring a Research Engineer to advance secure, production-grade AI agent runtimes. You will explore cutting-edge research, build prototypes, and shape product opportunities across OpenShell components.

The role emphasizes translating academic ideas into enterprise-ready capabilities at scale. The position requires 8+ years in research engineering or related fields, with strong background in LLMs, agent systems, and evaluation frameworks.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional practical experience in research engineering, software development, or a related technical field.
• MS/PhD in Computer Science, Physics, or a related field or equivalent experience.
• A strong background in turning complex research into reusable products, tools, demos, benchmarks, or production systems at scale.
• Deep experience in several of the following: LLMs, agent harnesses, multimodal generative models, evaluation frameworks, synthetic data generation, post-training, inference infrastructure/optimization, adversarial ML, or agent safety/security.
• Demonstrated ability to drive independent technical investigation: survey relevant work, run experiments, form a clear point of view, and communicate findings clearly.
• Strong product sense and care for UX and AX: tools should be intuitive for developers and ergonomic for agents.
• A focus on real-world impact: we want research to become enterprise capabilities, reference implementations, developer workflows, or product improvements.
• Outstanding team orientation and comfort collaborating across research, engineering, product, design, solutions, and developer-facing teams.

Responsibilities

• Track the cutting edge: follow research in agentic systems and related fields.
• Bridge research and product: translate ideas into concrete product opportunities.
• Benchmark and adapt: reproduce and test promising methods from papers, in industry work, and internal NVIDIA research.
• Build rapid prototypes: create hands-on proof-of-concepts using OpenShell and agent harnesses.
• Red-team systems: design evaluation harnesses measuring reliability, usefulness, scalability, safety, and UX.
• Secure the workflow: design secure-by-default workflows for agents operating with tools, credentials, and enterprise systems.
• Partner across teams: collaborate with engineering, product, design, research, solutions, and developer-facing teams.

Skills

LLMs

agent harnesses

multimodal models

evaluation frameworks

synthetic data generation

inference infrastructure/optimization

adversarial ML

agent safety/security

research to production translation

Education

MS/PhD in Computer Science or Physics

Tools

Triton

TensorRT-LLM

vLLM

SGLang

Ray

Kubernetes

Cloud GPU platforms

Job description

NVIDIA OpenShell is hiring a Research Engineer to advance secure, production-grade AI agent runtimes. You will explore cutting-edge research, build prototypes, and shape product opportunities across OpenShell components.

The role emphasizes translating academic ideas into enterprise-ready capabilities at scale. The position requires 8+ years in research engineering or related fields, with strong background in LLMs, agent systems, and evaluation frameworks.