Senior Real-Time AI Engineer for Gaming — Equity

AI Pulse; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 431,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to push the boundaries of real-time gaming with state-of-the-art AI and graphics. You will help bring unannounced projects from research into production, partnering with NVIDIA Research, rendering, and art teams.

Ideal candidates have deep expertise in C++ and Python, hands-on training of DL models with PyTorch, and a track record shipping AI-powered features for games. Equity and benefits accompany the role.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience shipping AI, deep learning, or ML systems.
• Expert-level C++ and Python.
• Hands-on experience training and fine-tuning deep learning models with PyTorch or a similar framework, including distributed training.
• Experience in one or more: video generation, world models, diffusion or flow-matching models, transformers, or neural rendering.
• Experience optimizing GPU inference with CUDA, TensorRT, TensorRT-LLM, or Triton.
• Track record turning complex prototypes into shipped products, and clear communication across research, engineering, and art.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship software for upcoming, not-yet-announced projects that bring world models and video diffusion models to real-time gaming.
• Train, fine-tune, and evaluate models, including data curation and adapting models to game content and controls.
• Optimize models and inference for latency, token throughput, and quality using distillation, quantization, and reduced-step sampling on RTX devices and in the cloud.
• Profile and remove bottlenecks across the stack, from model architecture to GPU kernels.
• Integrate models into Unreal Engine, Unity, and custom engines, so they run efficiently alongside rendering.
• Lead technical decisions, mentor other engineers, and collaborate with NVIDIA Research, rendering, and art teams.

Skills

C++

Python

Deep learning

Distributed training

Game AI

Communication

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/EE or related field

Tools

CUDA

TensorRT

TensorRT-LLM

Triton

PyTorch

Unreal Engine

Unity

Job description

NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to push the boundaries of real-time gaming with state-of-the-art AI and graphics. You will help bring unannounced projects from research into production, partnering with NVIDIA Research, rendering, and art teams.

Ideal candidates have deep expertise in C++ and Python, hands-on training of DL models with PyTorch, and a track record shipping AI-powered features for games. Equity and benefits accompany the role.