Solutions Architect, LLM Model Builder

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

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation seeks an exceptional Solutions Architect, Foundation Models to join a growing partner enablement team focused on reasoning and multimodal models, plus production inference. You will act as a strategic technical expert and hands-on advisor to help partners build, benchmark, fine-tune, optimize, and deploy foundation model solutions for customer workloads.

The role requires MSc/PhD (or equivalent) and 5+ years of experience with LLMs, VLMs, and large-scale inference, plus strong

Qualifications

• Must have MSc/PhD in CS, EE, ML or related fields (or equivalent).
• 5+ years with LLMs, VLMs, and large-scale inference systems; hands-on in fine-tuning, benchmarking, evaluation, optimization, deployment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as lead technical advisor for partners delivering reasoning, multimodal, fine-tuning, and model-serving solutions.
• Guide partners on approaches for workloads including fine-tuning, distillation, quantization, benchmarking, and evaluation.
• Define benchmark plans, synthetic data and evaluation workflows, and repeatable validation recipes.
• Advise on compute planning, including cluster sizing, GPUs, networking, storage, and production-readiness testing.
• Guide inference architecture across prefill/decode tradeoffs, batching, routing, and serving efficiency.
• Develop reference architectures, playbooks, benchmark recipes, and sizing models across CUDA, NeMo, and TensorRT-LLM.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

JAX

TensorFlow

LLMs

Benchmarking

System design

Communication

Education

MSc or PhD in CS/EE/ML

Equivalent experience

Tools

Nemotron

NeMo

Dynamo

TensorRT-LLM

Triton

NIMs

CUDA

vLLM

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking an outstanding Solutions Architect, Foundation Models to join our growing team focused on partner enablement for reasoning models, multimodal models, and production inference! In this role, you will act as both a strategic technical expert and a hands‑on advisor, helping partners build, benchmark, fine‑tune, optimize, and deploy foundation model solutions for customer workloads.

The Partner Solutions Architecture team acts as a trusted advisor to the ecosystem. We enable partners to translate customer requirements into architectures, benchmark recipes, cluster test plans, compute sizing, and production readiness—accelerating time to value through the full‑stack accelerated computing platform.

What you'll be doing:

• Serve as the lead technical advisor for partners delivering reasoning, multimodal, fine‑tuning, and model‑serving solutions.
• Guide partners to the right approach for customer workloads across fine‑tuning, distillation, quantization, compression, benchmarking, and evaluation.
• Define benchmark plans, synthetic data and evaluation workflows, and repeatable validation recipes.
• Advise on compute planning, including cluster sizing, GPU and network selection, storage, memory tradeoffs, latency and throughput targets, and production‑readiness testing.
• Guide inference architecture across prefill and decode tradeoffs, batching, routing, disaggregated inference, and serving efficiency.
• Develop reference architectures, playbooks, benchmark recipes, TCO calculators, and sizing models across CUDA, NeMo, Nemotron, Dynamo, TensorRT‑LLM, Triton, NIMs, and related tooling.
• Support pre‑ and post‑sales engagements by translating complex model and infrastructure topics for partner and customer teams.

What we need to see:

• MSc, PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineer, ML Engineer, or related fields (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of relevant experience working with LLMs, VLMs, and large‑scale inference systems, with hands‑on expertise in fine‑tuning, benchmarking, evaluation, optimization, and production deployment as a Research Engineer, Deep Learning Engineer, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of foundation models across data preparation, fine‑tuning, post‑training, evaluation, and inference.
• Familiarity with reasoning models, reinforcement learning, and synthetic data generation and evaluation workflows.
• Strong programming skills in Python and hands‑on experience with PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.
• Familiarity with Nemotron, NeMo, Dynamo, TensorRT‑LLM, Triton, vLLM, and similar inference and optimization stacks.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to advise both technical teams and executives.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience helping partners or customers deploy large‑scale AI systems in production.
• Built benchmark suites, fine‑tuning recipes, sizing calculators, or TCO models for AI workloads.
• Strong knowledge of GPU infrastructure, including NVLink, InfiniBand, MPI, NCCL, or adjacent cluster technologies.
• Active OSS contributions in model tooling, inference, evaluation, or performance optimization.
• Comfortable moving between deep technical reviews, architecture guidance, benchmarking, and partner enablement.
• Widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers, NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package.

As you plan your future, see what we can offer to you and your family www.nvidiabenefits.com/

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until April 11, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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