Engineering Manager, LLM Performance
Nvidia
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This role pays more than 85% of similar roles. Most pay $208,600–$270,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $290k versus about $239k for comparable roles.
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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
Nvidia currently has 896 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $184,000–$287,500 across 876 roles with salary data.
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As an Engineering Manager, LLM Inference & Deployment at Scale, you will lead and mentor a high-performing team responsible for building and operating an AI inference platform. You will manage the transition of Large Language Models and Vision-Language Models from research prototypes into optimized, reliable, and scalable production deployments. Your daily work involves driving technical strategy for low-latency, high-throughput, and cost-efficient inference while establishing engineering standards for benchmarking and profiling. You will utilize expertise in quantization, speculative decoding, continuous batching, prefix caching, and KV-cache optimization to improve performance across distributed systems and GPU hardware. The role requires proficiency with tools like TensorRT, TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, and SGLang. You will solve complex problems at the intersection of model optimization, inference systems, and production infrastructure to enable seamless deployment of rapidly evolving generative AI models.
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Median $290250 from 64 postings across 19 companies.
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