Agent Evaluation and Self-Improvement Engineer

Nvidia

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$224,000–$356,500 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
11 days ago
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Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing

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TL;DR · Agent Evaluation and Self-Improvement Engineer

As a principal engineer, you will join the team to set evaluation strategies for autonomous agents across various layers, including individual skills, MCP servers, and full products. You will build systems that allow agents to self-improve by proposing changes to their own skills and plugins, using sandboxed evaluations to ensure measurable gains. Your daily work involves mining production traces for failures and latency hotspots, creating realistic enterprise environments with sandboxed replicas of code repositories and APIs, and measuring multi-agent swarms. You will use Python, Go, or Rust to develop data pipelines, experiment designs, and automated checks to catch regressions. The role focuses on making self-improvement loops trustworthy by calibrating model judges against human labels and preventing agents from cheating during evaluation.

What you'll do

  • Design and set evaluation strategies for individual skills, MCP servers, and full autonomous agents.
  • Build automated evaluation systems to detect regressions across harnesses before they reach users.
  • Mine production traces to identify failures, latency hotspots, and new usage patterns for evaluation cases.
  • Develop a self-improvement loop where agents propose and test changes to their own skills and configurations.
  • Create realistic sandboxed replicas of enterprise environments like code repositories and internal APIs.
  • Measure multi-agent swarm performance, including work distribution, handoff success, and permission integrity.
  • Calibrate model and agent judges against human labels to prevent cheating or reward hacking.
  • Shape open evaluation standards and benchmarks for the broader AI industry.

What we're looking for

  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 12+ years of experience building large-scale systems, including ML or agent evaluation systems and data pipelines.
  • Hands-on experience building and evaluating agents on an open or closed agent harness.
  • Solid grounding in experiment design, including statistical significance, variance across repeated runs, and A/B testing.
  • Experience setting technical direction across teams as a senior individual contributor.
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or similar languages.
  • Experience building self-improving or self-evolving agent systems that improve from their own evaluation results (preferred).
  • Experience shipping an agent benchmark, evaluation framework, or simulated test environment adopted by other teams (preferred).

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