Senior AI Systems Engineer — High-Performance GPU + Equity

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior High Performance AI Engineer in Santa Clara, CA to build groundbreaking multi-agent systems for the CUDA ecosystem. You will design agentic runtimes, collaborate with software and hardware teams, and accelerate AI workloads across the NVIDIA stack.

You will work on agent abstractions, GPU-centric runtimes, and compiler- or runtime-driven solutions, accelerating planning, tool-use, code generation, and other high-impact AI workloads, with equity and strong benefits

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience); MS or PhD preferred.
• 8+ years of industry or academia experience with AI systems development; exposure to building foundational models, agents or orchestration frameworks; hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks and modern inference stacks.
• Strong C/C++ and Python programming skills; solid software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with GPU programming and performance optimization (CUDA or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Design, build and optimize agentic AI systems for the CUDA ecosystem.
• Co-design agentic system solutions with software, hardware and algorithm teams; influence and adopt new capabilities as they become available.
• Develop reproducible, high-fidelity evaluation frameworks covering performance, quality and developer productivity.
• Collaborate across the AI stack -from hardware through compilers/toolchains, kernels/libraries, frameworks, distributed training, and inference/serving -and with model/agent teams.

Skills

C/C++

Python

GPU programming

CUDA

Deep learning frameworks

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field

MS or PhD preferred

Tools

CUDA Toolkit

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior High Performance AI Engineer in Santa Clara, CA to build groundbreaking multi-agent systems for the CUDA ecosystem. You will design agentic runtimes, collaborate with software and hardware teams, and accelerate AI workloads across the NVIDIA stack.

You will work on agent abstractions, GPU-centric runtimes, and compiler- or runtime-driven solutions, accelerating planning, tool-use, code generation, and other high-impact AI workloads, with equity and strong benefits