NVIDIA · 15 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer - VLM Microservices for Neural Reconstruction
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$152K/yr - $242K/yr
5+ years expNVIDIA is a world-leader in Gaussian Splatting and Neural reconstruction. They are looking for a driven Software Engineer to bring groundbreaking models into NVIDIA's software ecosystem for neural graphics, improving robustness and accuracy. The role involves designing, building, and optimizing containerized inference execution for 3D Vision Language Models.
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Responsibilities
Design, build, and optimize containerized inference execution for the latest 3D VLMs from NVIDIA, turning research work into production-grade, highly optimized software (NIMs, NVIDIA Inference Microservices)
Develop benchmarks to validate the models accuracy and performance (latency, throughput, scalability)
Release and maintain the models and their pipelines throughout their lifecycle (bug fixes, security patches)
Contribute VLM-related features to Open-Source projects like vLLM
Collaborate closely with Research and Product teams and influence our common roadmaps
Qualification
Required
Master's of Science in Computer Science + 3 years, or Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (or equivalent experience) + 5 years of experience
History of building, validating and releasing production-grade AI distributed systems, backend services, microservices, and cloud technologies
Deep technical expertise in distributed applications using Docker, Kubernetes, endpoints and their APIs (REST, gRPC), Helm
Hands-on experience with modern inference platforms (vLLM, SGLang, Torch, TRT, TRT-LLM)
Proficiency with Python and C++
Excellent software engineering fundamentals (source control, CI/CD, testing/validation, packaging, containerization)
Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication
Curiosity and drive to learn new technologies and partner across teams and functions
Preferred
Track record contributing to open-source or production-grade software. Are you a vLLM contributor already?
Experience with ML model engineering: training, fine-tuning, distillation, quantization
Experience with low-level optimization of ML models (CUDA kernels)
Strong fundamentals in 3D graphics, 3D computer vision or neural reconstruction (NERFs, Gaussian Splats)
History of multidisciplinary creativity and innovation around software engineering in multiple problem domains
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