Senior Software Engineer, Scientific Evaluation

Nvidia Corporation in; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Scientific Evaluation (Finance) to own a shared platform for testing, benchmarking, and agentic evaluation across CUDA, C++, Python, and PyTorch ecosystems.

The role covers production software engineering, rigorous measurement, and distributed systems for large GPU fleets, with collaboration across scientists, kernel engineers, and product teams. Competitive base salaries with equity are included.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Strong CS fundamentals and production C++ and Python skills; Linux, Git, GitHub/GitLab pipelines, CMake, Docker, Python packaging, and containers.
• Record of creating test, benchmark, evaluation, or distributed execution systems with reproducible results.
• Hands-on operation of shared GPU compute with Slurm, Kubernetes, or similar scheduler; monitoring, isolation, and failure recovery.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and roadmap for evaluation and benchmarking of scientific software, serving agentic and numerical evaluations.
• Design and implement infrastructure, benchmarks and test levels for classical software and scientific agents, balancing rapid turnaround time and thorough scientific coverage.
• Establish trusted references, numerical tolerances, calibrated scorers, regression thresholds, and human-review hooks for nondeterministic workloads.
• Operate heterogeneous GPU capacity using multiple control plane technologies, self-hosted runners, schedulers, queues, containers, caching, observability, and automated recovery.
• Partner with applied scientists, kernel and framework engineers, product teams, and release owners to create reproducible quality signals and production-readiness gates.

Skills

C++

Python

Linux

Git

Distributed systems

Education

BS/MS in CS/CE or related field

Tools

CMake

Docker

GitHub/GitLab pipelines

Slurm

Kubernetes

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Scientific Evaluation (Finance) to own a shared platform for testing, benchmarking, and agentic evaluation across CUDA, C++, Python, and PyTorch ecosystems.

The role covers production software engineering, rigorous measurement, and distributed systems for large GPU fleets, with collaboration across scientists, kernel engineers, and product teams. Competitive base salaries with equity are included.