High Performance AI Engineer

About the role

NVIDIA is seeking a High Performance AI Engineer to design, build, and optimize agentic AI systems for the CUDA ecosystem. This role involves co-designing system solutions with internal NVIDIA software and hardware teams, developing reproducible evaluation frameworks, and collaborating across the AI stack.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and optimize agentic AI systems for the CUDA ecosystem.
• Co-design agentic system solutions with software, hardware and algorithm teams; influence and adopt new capabilities as they become available.
• Develop reproducible, high-fidelity evaluation frameworks covering performance, quality and developer productivity.
• Collaborate across the AI stack—from hardware through compilers/toolchains, kernels/libraries, frameworks, distributed training, and inference/serving—and with model/agent teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience); MS or PhD preferred.
• 3 years+ industry or academia experience with AI systems development; exposure to building foundational models, agents or orchestration frameworks; hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks and modern inference stacks.
• Strong C/C++ and Python programming skills; solid software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with GPU programming and performance optimization (CUDA or equivalent).

Qualifications

• Strong experience in building/evaluating deep learning models, coding agents and developer tooling.
• Demonstrated ability to optimize and deploy high-performance models, including on resource-constrained platforms.
• Demonstrated ability in GPU performance optimizations, evidenced by benchmark wins or published results.
• Publications or open-source leadership in deep learning, multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, or AI systems; contributions to widely used repos or standards.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, including equity and benefits. Applications for this job will be accepted at least until July 17, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and is an equal opportunity employer.