Senior AI Agent Simulation & Evaluation Engineer

Nvidia Corporation in; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 242,000; Full time

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Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Agent Simulation and Evaluation in Finance. You will design AI-native systems to automate simulation, evaluation, and reporting across GPU and LPU platforms.

Responsibilities include building experiments, analyzing results, and creating performance models while collaborating with cross-functional teams to accelerate engineering decisions. A strong Python background and 5+ years of software experience are required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant software development experience.
• Strong Python skills and experience building reliable engineering tools.
• Experience building AI agents or AI-backed engineering systems.
• Familiarity with modern model architectures and AI inference workloads.
• MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Building agentic systems that automate simulation, evaluation, performance analysis, and reporting.
• Developing tools that configure experiments, run evaluations, analyze results, identify regressions, and recommend follow-up work.
• Analyzing the inference characteristics of LLMs, reasoning models, coding agents, multimodal models, and agentic harnesses.
• Building and validating performance models for GPU, LPU, and heterogeneous GPU-LPU systems.
• Collaborating with inference, hardware, runtime, compiler, evaluation, and product teams to improve simulation quality and accelerate engineering decisions.
• Automating critical LPU workflows such as benchmarking, workload characterization, capacity planning, and release qualification.

Skills

AI agents

Python

performance analysis

Agentic engineering

Model architectures

Education

MS in Computer Science or related field

Equivalent experience

Tools

Automation tools

Profiling tools

Benchmarking tools

Job description

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Agent Simulation and Evaluation in Finance. You will design AI-native systems to automate simulation, evaluation, and reporting across GPU and LPU platforms.

Responsibilities include building experiments, analyzing results, and creating performance models while collaborating with cross-functional teams to accelerate engineering decisions. A strong Python background and 5+ years of software experience are required.