Senior High-Performance AI Engineer: Agentic CUDA Systems

Nvidia Corporation in; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

Competitive salary

Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior High Performance AI Engineer to advance agentic AI systems within the CUDA ecosystem. You will design, build, and optimize agentic architectures and scalable runtimes across GPUs and software stack.

The role requires strong C/C++, Rust, and Python, plus GPU programming with CUDA. You will collaborate with NVIDIA teams and contribute to high-performance AI systems, compilers, and runtimes, with salary range 152000–241500 USD.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/EE or equivalent; MS/PhD preferred.
• 4+ years in AI systems, ML, compilers, HPC or related areas.
• Hands-on experience with agent systems or reinforcement learning.
• Strong C/C++, Rust, Python with solid software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with GPU programming and CUDA or similar accelerators.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize agentic AI systems for the CUDA ecosystem, including agent architectures, multi-agent workflows, tool use, memory, and orchestration.
• Build the data, environments, verification, reward, and evaluation systems needed to continuously improve model and agent capabilities.
• Co-design and optimize agentic systems across NVIDIA's software and hardware stack, from models and inference through compilers, runtimes, libraries, kernels, and GPUs.

Skills

C/C++

Rust

Python

CUDA

Agent systems

Reinforcement learning

AI inference systems

GPU programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

MS or PhD preferred

Tools

TRT-LLM

SGLang

vLLM

Transformer Engine

CUDA

Job description

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior High Performance AI Engineer to advance agentic AI systems within the CUDA ecosystem. You will design, build, and optimize agentic architectures and scalable runtimes across GPUs and software stack.

The role requires strong C/C++, Rust, and Python, plus GPU programming with CUDA. You will collaborate with NVIDIA teams and contribute to high-performance AI systems, compilers, and runtimes, with salary range 152000–241500 USD.