NVIDIA · 2 days ago
Senior Generative AI Research Engineer
US, CA, Santa Clara
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$224K/yr - $356K/yr
8+ years expNVIDIA is a leading technology company specializing in AI computing and generative modeling. They are seeking a Senior Generative AI Research Engineer to design and post-train foundation models and contribute to the development of large-scale training infrastructure and inference pipelines.
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Responsibilities
Design and post-train foundation models (LLMs, VLMs, VLAs and DiTs) for real world applications
Contribute to highly-collaborative development on large-scale training infrastructure, high-efficiency inference pipelines, and scalable data pipelines
Work with teams in research, software, and product to bring world models from idea to deployment
Collaborate on open-source and internal projects, author technical papers or patents, and mentor junior engineers
Prototype and iterate rapidly on experiments across cutting-edge AI domains, including agentic systems, reinforcement learning, reasoning, and video generation
Design and implement model distillation algorithms for size reduction and diffusion step optimization
Profile and benchmark training and inference pipelines to achieve production-ready performance requirements
Qualification
Required
Minimum 8 years industry or 5+ years research/postdoc experience building and deploying generative AI systems
Proficiency in PyTorch, JAX, or other deep learning frameworks
Expertise in one or more of: LLMs, coding agents, diffusion models, autoregressive models, VAE/GAN architectures, retrieval-augmented generation, neural rendering, or multi-agent systems
Intimately familiar with all variants of the attention mechanisms in transformer architectures
Hands on experience with large scale training (e.g., ZeRO, DDP, FSDP, TP, CP) and data processing (e.g. Ray, Spark)
Production-quality software engineering skills in Python
MS or PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Applied Math, Physics, or a related field
12+ years of relevant software development experience
Preferred
Familiarity with high-performance computing and GPU acceleration
Contributions to influential open-source libraries or influential conference publications (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICLR)
Experience working with multimodal data (e.g., vision-language, VLA, audio)
Prior work with NVIDIA GPU-based compute clusters or simulation environments
Benefits
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NVIDIA
NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.
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