Senior Research Engineer

NVIDIA

Senior Research Engineer at NVIDIA working on generative AI and open-source software projects. Collaborating with teams to advance the Nemotron models and AI training solutions.

Posted 4/23/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $192,000 - $304,750 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Open SourcePythonPyTorch

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work with applied researchers to design, implement and test next generation of RL and pos-training algorithms
Contribute and advance open source by developing NeMo-RL, Megatron Core, and NeMo Framework and yet to be announced software
Solve large-scale, end-to-end AI training and inference challenges, spanning the full model lifecycle from initial orchestration, data pre-processing, running of model training and tuning, to model deployment.
Work at the intersection of computer-architecture, libraries, frameworks, AI applications and the entire software stack.
Performance tuning and optimizations, model training with mixed precision recipes on next-gen NVIDIA GPU architectures.
Publish and present your results at academic and industry conferences

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, AI, Applied Math, or related fields or equivalent experience
6+ years of proven experience in machine learning, systems, distributed computing, or large-scale model training.
Experience with AI Frameworks such as Pytorch or JAX
Experience with at least one inference and deployment environments such as vLLM, SGLang or TRT-LLM
Proficient in Python programming, software design, debugging, performance analysis, test design and documentation.
Strong understanding of AI/Deep-Learning fundamentals and their practical applications.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

machine learningdistributed computinglarge-scale model trainingPython programmingperformance tuningmodel trainingmixed precisionAI frameworksdeep learningtest design

Certifications

BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer SciencePhD in Computer Scienceequivalent experience