Senior Software Engineer, Agentic AI — High-Performance CodeGen

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

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Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Agentic AI High-Performance Code Generation team. You will be at the heart of building autonomous systems that optimize coding workflows on NVIDIA's accelerated computing stack.

The role focuses on agent design, AI evaluation, and distributed systems, with emphasis on scalable, production-grade solutions that push the boundaries of performance on latest GPU architectures.

Qualifications

• MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 4+ years of experience building and maintaining large-scale production systems.
• Proven experience in building coding agents or developing comprehensive agent platforms.
• Experience with state-of-the-art coding agents and IDEs (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex).
• Proficient in Python and at least one systems programming language (C++ or Rust).
• Strong background in AI evaluation and benchmarking agentic behaviors.
• Experience with distributed systems and orchestration for high-throughput AI workloads.

Responsibilities

• Architect agentic systems with multi-step reasoning and autonomous code generation.
• Scale distributed systems for high-throughput AI workloads.
• Develop evaluation frameworks to measure accuracy, safety, and efficiency of generated code.
• Collaborate with hardware and software teams to optimize agent-generated code for GPUs.
• Establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, and deployment in agentic AI.

Skills

Python

C++

Rust

Distributed systems

AI evaluation

Education

MS in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

CUDA

Nsight Compute

Nsight Systems

TRT-LLM

SGLang

vLLM

Transformer Engine

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Agentic AI High-Performance Code Generation team. You will be at the heart of building autonomous systems that optimize coding workflows on NVIDIA's accelerated computing stack.

The role focuses on agent design, AI evaluation, and distributed systems, with emphasis on scalable, production-grade solutions that push the boundaries of performance on latest GPU architectures.