Senior AI Agent Simulation & Evaluation Engineer

NVIDIA

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 152,000 - 288,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Agent Simulation & Evaluation to advance AI workloads across GPUs and LPUs. You will build agentic systems, develop evaluation tools, and collaborate with inference, hardware, and product teams.

Required are strong Python skills, experience with AI agents, and a MS in CS/engineering (or equivalent) with 5+ years of software development. Equity and benefits accompany the role. Eligible by Aug 16, 2026.

Qualifications

Experience building AI agents or AI-backed engineering systems.
Familiarity with modern model architectures and AI inference workloads.
Experience evaluating AI models or agents and analyzing performance.
Experience with simulation, profiling, benchmarking, or performance modelling.
Strong Python skills and experience building reliable engineering tools.

Responsibilities

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