AI Developer Technology Engineer

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking an AI Developer Technology Engineer to accelerate generative AI training and inference on NVIDIA platforms. You will work with developers worldwide to optimize algorithms, contribute to libraries, and push performance on CPUs and GPUs.

Ideal candidates have an MS in a related field and 1+ years of software engineering experience, with strong C/C++ skills and a background in accelerated computing. Hybrid work and equity benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related computational field (or equivalent experience).
• 1+ years of relevant work or research experience in software engineering and performance tuning.
• Proficiency in C/C++ with strong algorithms and software development fundamentals.
• Background in accelerated computing with parallel programming, performance analysis, and optimization.
• Hands-on experience with low-level performance optimizations and understanding of modern CPU/GPU architectures.

Responsibilities

• Develop GPU-accelerated techniques for generative AI workloads (LLMs, diffusion, multimodal).
• Collaborate with developers to optimize training and inference on NVIDIA platform and contribute to frameworks and libraries.
• Partner with experts to analyze and optimize AI algorithms on CPU/GPU architectures.
• Shape designs of next-generation hardware, system software, and programming models with internal teams.
• Publish breakthroughs in developer blogs and present at industry conferences.

Skills

C/C++

Parallel programming

Performance tuning

Low-level optimization

CPU/GPU architectures

Communication skills

Education

MS in Computer Science / Computer Engineering or related field

Job description

We are seeking an AI Developer Technology (DevTech) Engineer to accelerate the frontier of generative AI training and inference. Our team is the bridge connecting the NVIDIA platform with developers worldwide. We dive deep into customer projects to accelerate performance, eliminate bottlenecks, and partner with a vibrant developer community to deliver outstanding performance on NVIDIA systems.

If you are passionate about accelerating the world's most advanced AI models and want your insights to directly influence the future of NVIDIA hardware and software stacks, we want you to be on our team.

What you will be doing:

• Develop cutting-edge techniques to GPU-accelerate complex workloads across state-of-the-art generative AI (including LLMs, diffusion models, and multimodal systems), deep learning, and machine learning domains.

• Work directly with key developers to optimize and accelerate generative AI training and inference on NVIDIA platform. Build and optimize algorithms to deliver the best performance, and contribute to training and inference frameworks, low-level software libraries, and open-source projects.

• Partner directly with top technical experts in industry and academia to perform in-depth analysis and optimization of complex AI algorithms on modern CPU and GPU architectures.

• Shape the design of next-generation hardware, system software, libraries, and programming models through tight collaboration with NVIDIA’s internal engineering and research teams.

• Share your breakthrough optimization techniques by publishing in developer blogs and presenting at industry conferences.

What we need to see:

• MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related computational field (or equivalent experience)

• 1+ years of relevant work or research experience in software engineering and performance tuning.

• Programming fluency in C/C++ with a deep understanding of algorithms and software development.

• A background in accelerated computing, with comprehensive knowledge of parallel programming, performance analysis and optimization.

• Hands on experience doing low-level performance optimizations.

• Foundational understanding of modern CPU and GPU architectures.

• Good communication and organization skills, with a logical approach to problem solving, and prioritization skills.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• PhD in a relevant field.

• Experience with training and inference stacks, serving frameworks, pre-training and post-training pipelines.

• Strong foundation in linear algebra and numerical methods.

What's DevTech? We are a global organization whose mission is to drive innovation we see in the market towards our products. As recognized specialists across many domains, our work makes valuable contributions in two important ways. Our solutions are at the cutting edge of technology, advancing NVIDIA’s leadership in accelerated computing. Our discoveries generate findings that benefit the Developer Community and provides guidance to our engineering teams to help make our products better.NVIDIA's success in the advancement and availability of Artificial Intelligence has created incredible growth across the Company, and our Developer Technology Engineering team has been steadily growing to meet the demands for our services.

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Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 124,000 USD - 195,500 USD for Level 2, and 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 6, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.