Lead Principal Engineer, Local AI Agents & Systems — Equity

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 272,000 - 431,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation seeks a Principal Engineer for Local AI to architect and deploy agent frameworks on Windows and consumer GPUs. You will lead dual-use development, ensuring secure, private local inference and sandboxed execution on GeForce RTX PCs.

You will mentor teams, shape the OS-level agent runtime, work with OpenClaw and related tooling, and deliver robust, scalable local AI ecosystems that respect user privacy and policy controls.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with leadership roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of local AI agent frameworks on Windows.
• Define technical roadmaps for always-on AI assistants on GeForce RTX PCs.
• Mentor engineers and write production-ready code.

Skills

C++

Python

Windows internals

LLM inference pipelines

multi-agent systems

leadership

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/CE

Tools

OpenClaw

LangChain

Hermes

Ollama

Llama.cpp

vLLM

CUDA

TensorRT

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation seeks a Principal Engineer for Local AI to architect and deploy agent frameworks on Windows and consumer GPUs. You will lead dual-use development, ensuring secure, private local inference and sandboxed execution on GeForce RTX PCs.

You will mentor teams, shape the OS-level agent runtime, work with OpenClaw and related tooling, and deliver robust, scalable local AI ecosystems that respect user privacy and policy controls.