Job Description
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. They are looking for an outstanding Distinguished Engineer – High Performance AI to build groundbreaking agentic AI systems for the CUDA ecosystem, defining technical direction and driving execution across the stack.
- Responsibilities
- Set strategy and lead execution for agentic AI systems for the CUDA ecosystem, defining roadmaps and measurable success metrics (performance, quality, reliability, developer productivity)
- 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 and help drive architecture and key technical decisions —from hardware through compilers/toolchains, kernels/libraries, frameworks, distributed training, and inference/serving—and with model and research/engineering teams
- Scale impact through leadership: mentor and grow senior technical talent
- Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 17+ years industry and/or academia experience with AI systems development; strong 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; ability to set engineering standards and review architecture at scale
- Experience with GPU programming and performance optimization (CUDA or equivalent)
- Proven track record leading large, cross-team efforts from concept through production, including navigating ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and delivering measurable outcomes
- MS or PhD preferred
- Track record building/evaluating deep learning models, coding agents and developer tooling, and driving broad adoption across teams or customers
- Demonstrated ability to optimize and deploy high-performance models, including on resource-constrained platforms
- Deep expertise 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
- Experience leading projects end-to-end, mentoring small teams; ability to drive concepts to production
- Recognized technical leadership (e.g., setting platform direction, creating widely used architectures/APIs, or establishing evaluation/benchmarking standards)
- Benefits
- Equity
- Benefits
- Company Overview
- NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI. It was founded in 1993, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.nvidia.com.
- Company H1B Sponsorship
- NVIDIA has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1877 in 2025, 1355 in 2024, 976 in 2023, 835 in 2022, 601 in 2021, 529 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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