Senior RL Post-Training Frameworks Leader

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 272,000 - 431,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to own the RL post-training frameworks strategy and to set priorities across research, engineering, and open-source collaborations. You will lead cross-functional teams and drive durable, upstream improvements for scalable RL workloads on NVIDIA platforms.

You will recruit and develop managers and senior ICs, define multi-team execution plans, and ensure measurable impact across enterprise and research collaborations.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 10+ years of software engineering experience in distributed systems, AI frameworks, ML infrastructure, HPC, or systems software, with 4+ years as an engineering manager
• Strong technical background in distributed AI systems across training, inference, orchestration, and end-to-end performance
• Experience defining domain-level technical strategy and multi-team execution plans
• Ability to drive engineering work across organizational boundaries and communicate tradeoffs to senior leaders
• Experience hiring and leading engineering teams and creating staffing plans for evolving technical domains
• Experience establishing workflows, success criteria, metrics, or decision gates to improve execution
• Background collaborating with open-source communities, research teams, external partners, or customer-facing teams

Responsibilities

• Lead NVIDIA's RL post-training frameworks strategy and priority setting
• Converge on integrations to improve RL framework quality and user value
• Build and coach managers and senior individual contributors; create an effective US/APAC operating model
• Drive upstream open-source improvements and durable contributions across frameworks and runtimes

Skills

Distributed systems

AI frameworks

ML infrastructure

High-performance computing

Systems software

Engineering management

Education

MS/PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

Ray

Kubernetes

Megatron-Core

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to own the RL post-training frameworks strategy and to set priorities across research, engineering, and open-source collaborations. You will lead cross-functional teams and drive durable, upstream improvements for scalable RL workloads on NVIDIA platforms.

You will recruit and develop managers and senior ICs, define multi-team execution plans, and ensure measurable impact across enterprise and research collaborations.