Senior AI Engineer, AI tools

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 357,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a senior AI tools engineer to evaluate AI tools, models, and agent harnesses within engineering workflows. You will design reference workflows, benchmark performance, and provide practical guidance for tool adoption across teams.

The role emphasizes Python expertise, CI/CD practices, and scalable tooling. Base salary is a range with equity and benefits; location in Santa Clara, CA.

Qualifications

• MS in EE/CS or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of work experience.
• Strong understanding of LLMs, ML, and agentic AI.
• Hands-on evaluating AI tools or models in software engineering workflows.
• Strong Python skills; Java or Go.
• Experience building evaluation pipelines and tooling.
• CI/CD tools like Jenkins or GitLab CI.
• Distributed systems and REST APIs.
• Translate evaluation results into actionable recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate emerging AI tools, agent harnesses, and models on NVIDIA workflows, comparing task success, output quality, reliability, latency, cost, and readiness.
• Identify opportunities where AI is the best tool.
• Uncover gaps and recommend AI-first approaches over traditional solutions.
• Design, implement, and validate reference workflows for coding, testing, and troubleshooting with AI tools.
• Collaborate with AI vendors to gain industry insights and share with leaders and developers.
• Provide AI tool and model selection guidance, configurations, and onboarding materials.

Skills

LLM & AI concepts

Python

Java or Go

Experiment design

Automation scripting

Cross-functional collaboration

REST APIs

Education

MS in EE/CS or equivalent

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Packer

Terraform

Artifactory

Ansible

Chef

Job description

Today, NVIDIA is tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, encouraging environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Come join the team and see how we can make a lasting impact on the world.

What you’ll be doing:

• Evaluate emerging and established AI tools, agent harnesses, and models on representative NVIDIA engineering workflows, comparing task success, output quality, reliability, latency, cost, and enterprise readiness.
• Spot opportunities where AI is the best tool.
• Uncover gaps, and recommend AI-first approaches over conventional solutions grounded in hands-on evaluation of modern AI-native tools.
• Design, implement, and validate reference workflows for coding, testing, code review, and troubleshooting using tools such as Codex, Claude, Cursor, Greptile, and CodeRabbit.
• Introduce technologies enabling massively parallel systems to improve turnaround time by an order of magnitude.
• Optimize for performance and cost by identifying bottlenecks across training, evaluation, and testing workflows and improve throughput, latency, and efficiency.
• Collaborate with AI product vendors to gain deep insights of the AI industry, and share them with leaders and developers internally.
• Work with core and emerging tool vendors to evaluate new capabilities, influence product roadmaps, resolve adoption issues, and introduce useful features into NVIDIA's AI ecosystem.
• Provide AI tool and model selection guidance, recommended configurations, workflow examples, onboarding materials, and hands-on training.

What we need to see:

• MS in EE/CS or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of work experience.
• Strong understanding of large language models (LLMs), machine learning, and agentic AI, including how models, agent harnesses, context, and tool use affect end-to-end task outcomes.
• Hands-on experience evaluating AI tools or models and applying LLMs to software engineering workflows, with skills in experiment design, benchmark development, reproducibility, and failure analysis.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python, with experience in Java or Go and extensive scripting and automation experience.
• Experience building evaluation pipelines, developer tooling, or full-stack applications, including API integration, data management, and deployment in cloud or enterprise environments.
• Experience with tools for CI/CD setup such as Jenkins, Gitlab CI, Packer, Terraform, Artifactory, Ansible, Chef or similar tools.
• Good understanding of distributed systems, understanding of microservice architecture and REST APIs.
• Familiarity with software development, testing, code review, and build workflows, and the ability to translate evaluation results into clear technical recommendations and practical user guidance.
• Ability to effectively work across organizational boundaries to enhance alignment and productivity between teams.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Industry thought leader in AI, influenced AI ecosystem to deliver forward looking solutions.
• Expertise in agent harnesses, tool calling, MCP, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), context management, or fine-tuning, and in evaluating their impact on complex engineering workflows.
• Experience rolling out AI tools across engineering teams, collaborating with vendors, and turning emerging capabilities into measurable adoption and productivity improvements.
• Experience developing large-scale distributed tooling, evaluation services, or observability systems with real-time constraints.
• Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills, with a consistent record of guiding and influencing others in dynamic environments.

We have some of the most forward-thinking and versatile people in the world working for us and, due to unprecedented growth, our best-in-class engineering teams are rapidly growing. We are building a team that will truly change the world. If you are passionate about new technologies, care about software quality, and want to shape the future of AI tools and engineering productivity, we would love for you to join us.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 13, 2026.

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.

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