NVIDIA · 4 months ago
Senior Software Engineer, AI Inference
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$184K/yr - $288K/yr
6+ years expNVIDIA is a leader in AI computing and has been transforming computer graphics and accelerated computing for over 25 years. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work on distributed model management systems for AI inference workloads, collaborating with engineers and researchers to develop scalable APIs and services.
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Responsibilities
Build and maintain distributed model management systems, including Rust-based runtime components, for large-scale AI inference workloads
Implement inference scheduling and deployment solutions on Kubernetes and Slurm, while driving advances in scaling, orchestration, and resource management
Collaborate with infrastructure engineers and researchers to develop scalable APIs, services, and end-to-end inference workflows
Create monitoring, benchmarking, automation, and documentation processes to ensure low-latency, robust, and production-ready inference systems on GPU clusters
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, ECE, or related field (or equivalent experience)
6+ years of professional software engineering experience
Strong understanding of modern ML architectures with a keen intuition for optimizing inference performance
Take full ownership of problems end-to-end, proactively acquiring any knowledge or skills needed to deliver results
Familiar with or able to quickly gain expertise in vLLM, SGLang, PyTorch, NVIDIA GPUs, and supporting software stacks such as NIXL, NCCL, CUDA, as well as HPC technologies like InfiniBand, MPI, and NVLink
Experienced in architecting, building, monitoring, and debugging production-grade distributed systems; bonus if you've worked on performance-critical ones
Preferred
Experience with inference-serving frameworks (e.g., Dynamo Inference Server, TensorRT, ONNX Runtime) and deploying/managing LLM inference pipelines at scale
Contributions to large-scale, low-latency distributed systems (open-source preferred) with proven expertise in high-availability infrastructure
Strong background in GPU inference performance tuning, CUDA-based systems, and operating across cloud-native and hybrid environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
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NVIDIA
NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.
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