Senior AI Inference Systems Engineer

NVIDIA Corporation

Santa Clara (CA)

Hybrid

USD 224,000 - 431,250

Full time

14 days+

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NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara (hybrid) is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to join a fast-moving team developing the Dynamo AI inference platform. You will contribute to GPU-accelerated open source software powering next-gen AI models.

The role emphasizes building robust, high-performance components for disaggregated inference, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and advancing inference engines like vLLM, SGLang, and TensorRT-LLM to enable tool calls and long-horizon

Qualifications

  • Masters or PhD or equivalent experience required.
  • 10+ years in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
  • Excellent Rust and Python programming, debugging and performance analysis skills.
  • Understanding modern LLM API semantics, tool calling, and session semantics.

Responsibilities

  • Develop open source software to serve inference of trained AI models on GPUs.
  • Advance Dynamo's disaggregated inference frontend across vLLM, SGLang, and TensorRT-LLM.
  • Balance throughput and latency while managing resources for multi-model workloads.
  • Collaborate with team leads to prioritize features and write tests.

Skills

Rust programming
Python programming
Software design
Performance analysis
LLM API semantics
Open-source contributions

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/CE or equivalent

Tools

vLLM
TensorRT-LLM
SGLang

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara (hybrid) is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to join a fast-moving team developing the Dynamo AI inference platform. You will contribute to GPU-accelerated open source software powering next-gen AI models.

The role emphasizes building robust, high-performance components for disaggregated inference, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and advancing inference engines like vLLM, SGLang, and TensorRT-LLM to enable tool calls and long-horizon

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