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Senior Applied AI Engineer

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$152k - $241.5kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior AI engineer to build AI-powered workflows and services that enhance software quality, engineering efficiency, and developer productivity. Works at the intersection of software engineering, machine learning, and developer tooling to deliver practical, reliable AI-enabled tools for engineering environments.

Responsibilities

  • Invent and build AI-powered systems that enhance software quality, engineering efficiency, and developer workflows.
  • Develop intelligent workflows for analyzing large codebases, code changes, and engineering signals to help teams identify issues earlier and make faster, better decisions.
  • Build and maintain production services and infrastructure for AI-enabled applications, including orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, and monitoring.
  • Partner with software engineers and multi-functional teams to understand real workflow problems and translate them into practical AI solutions.
  • Evaluate emerging models, frameworks, and tooling to improve quality, latency, reliability, and cost across AI systems.
  • Drive projects from early concept through production deployment, iteration, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of proven experience or related field.
  • Hold a B.S. or higher degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science/Engineering and related field
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals with excellent Python skills and experience building production-quality systems.
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying AI or ML systems, data-intensive backend services, or intelligent automation workflows.
  • Experience with LLM-based applications, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, or orchestration frameworks.
  • Strong familiarity with Git-based development workflows, including working with commits, branches, diffs, and large multi-repository codebases.
  • Track record of solving complex technical problems and working effectively across teams.

Skills

Required:PythonProduction backend systemsLLM-based applicationsGit workflows

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (as listed on NVIDIA benefits page)
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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