Senior AI Engineer: Equity Options & Scalable AI Tooling

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a senior AI-focused engineer to evaluate, benchmark, and integrate AI tools within NVIDIA's engineering workflows. You will design reference pipelines, assess tool viability, and advise on best configurations for scalable, efficient AI-enabled development.

The role emphasizes hands-on evaluation, experimentation, and cross-team collaboration. The position requires deep ML understanding, strong software engineering skills, and experience building scalable tooling and CI/CD

Qualifications

• MS in EE/CS or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of work experience.
• Strong understanding of large language models (LLMs), machine learning, and agentic AI.
• Hands-on experience evaluating AI tools or models and applying LLMs to software engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate emerging and established AI tools, agent harnesses, and models on 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.

Skills

Python programming

Java or Go

Scripting & automation

Distributed systems

REST APIs

Cloud deployment

Experiment design

Education

MS in EE/CS or equivalent experience

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Packer

Terraform

Artifactory

Ansible

Chef

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a senior AI-focused engineer to evaluate, benchmark, and integrate AI tools within NVIDIA's engineering workflows. You will design reference pipelines, assess tool viability, and advise on best configurations for scalable, efficient AI-enabled development.

The role emphasizes hands-on evaluation, experimentation, and cross-team collaboration. The position requires deep ML understanding, strong software engineering skills, and experience building scalable tooling and CI/CD