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Senior Deep Learning Software Engineer, LLM Performance

NVIDIA
Santa Clara, CA Full-time 2/4/2026 $184k - $356.5k per year
Undergraduate with 5+ Years of ExperienceMaster's with 2+ Years of Experience
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FY 2025

Job Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Deep Learning Software Engineer to analyze and improve the performance of LLM inference. The role involves collaborating with various teams to optimize deep learning models and contribute to NVIDIA's software frameworks for deployment and serving of these models.

Requirements

  • Bachelors, Masters, PhD, or equivalent experience in relevant fields (Computer Engineering, Computer Science, EECS, AI)
  • At least 8 years of relevant software development experience
  • Excellent Python/C/C++ programming, software design and software engineering skills
  • Experience with a DL framework like PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow

Responsibilities

  • Performance optimization, analysis, and tuning of LLM, VLM and GenAI models for DL inference, serving and deployment in NVIDIA/OSS LLM frameworks
  • Scale performance of LLM models across different architectures and types of NVIDIA accelerators
  • Scale performance for max throughput, minimum latency and throughput under latency constraints
  • Contribute features and code to NVIDIA/OSS LLM frameworks, inference benchmarking frameworks, TensorRT, and Triton
  • Work with cross-collaborative teams across generative AI, automotive, image understanding, and speech understanding to develop innovative solutions

Benefits

  • Employees at NVIDIA are often offered comprehensive, day-one benefits—including medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA support, life and disability insurance, an Employee Assistance Program, and a 401(k) with auto-enrollment. Many roles also have generous time off and holidays, donation matching (up to $10,000), and a wide menu of extras like FSAs, commuter benefits, legal and identity-theft protection, pet insurance, and wellness discounts. Optional programs can include student-loan and home-purchase support, plus family care resources and expert medical services.