Senior Software Engineer - Local AI

NVIDIA Ltd.
Santa Clara, CA, United States
13 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$152,000.0 - $241,500.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Microsoft Windows Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Artificial Neural Networks C++ (Programming Language) Program Optimization Nvidia CUDA Data Structures Software Debugging Linux DirectX (Software) Web Browsers
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Machine Learning Smart Devices Software Engineering Pytorch Software Application Programming Generative AI Gpu Programming Information Technology ONNX (Open Neural Network Exchange) Format TensorRT Vulkan Graphics API Data Pipelines

Job description

Local AI seeks a Senior Systems Software Engineer interested in solving client-side AI challenges on Windows and Linux PCs with limited resources.

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Partnering with NVIDIA software, research, architecture, and product teams to align strategies and technical needs for fostering the ecosystem of AI on RTX and DGX PCs.
  • Collaborate closely with industry partners to advance AI across critical domains-including graphics, web browsers, and edge devices-by driving innovation in both open and closed source technologies with emphasis on system level support.
  • Improving performance on current and next-generation GPU architectures by conducting in-depth analysis and end-to-end optimization of AI models, data processing pipelines, and inference runtime features.
  • Identifying, evaluating, and implementing compute and memory optimization techniques-such as quantization, distillation, and pruning-for large AI models; fine-tuning and compressing models to fit edge devices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • Excellent C++ programming and debugging skills with a strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.
  • 5+ years of experience with proficiency in AI inferencing pipelines and applications using ML/DL frameworks, including ONNX RT, PyTorch, Tensor RT, llama.cpp and vLLM.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with the ability to multitask effectively in a dynamic environment.
  • Outstanding written and oral communication skills enabling effective collaboration with management and engineering teams.

Ways To Stand Out from The Crowd:

  • Understanding modern techniques in Machine Learning, Deep Neural Networks, and Generative AI with relevant contributions to major open-source projects will be a plus.
  • Consistent track record of delivering end-to-end products with geographically distributed teams in multinational product companies.
  • Proficiency in lower-level system/GPU programming, CUDA, developing high-performance systems.
  • Hands-on experience with building applications using APIs like ONNX RT, DirectX, PyTorch, TensorRT, Vulkan, llama.cpp.

Benefits & conditions

We’re a top employer known for innovation and growth. We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, we are widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us and, due to unprecedented growth, our exclusive engineering teams are rapidly growing. If you’re a creative and autonomous engineer with a real passion for technology, we would like to hear from you.

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 for Level 3, and 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits .

About the company

NVIDIA has continuously reinvented itself for over two decades. Our invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI - the new era of computing, positioning GPUs as the driving force behind intelligent applications in productivity, gaming, and creative fields, solidifying NVIDIA’s position as the leading “AI computing company.”

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