Senior Engineer, Local AI - Agents and Systems
Nvidia
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This role pays more than 98% of similar roles. Most pay $174,500–$255,062 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $352k versus about $215k 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
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JOB TITLE: Principal Engineer, Local AI - Agents and Systems As the Principal Engineer for Local AI - Agents and Systems, you will lead technical efforts to deploy advanced AI agent frameworks and local runtimes on Windows and NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs. You will build the technical roadmap for always-on, self-evolving AI assistants, ensuring they operate within policy-based privacy and security frameworks including filesystem access and secure inference routing. Your daily work involves optimizing agent runtimes, developing sandboxed execution environments, and partnering with research and driver teams. You must utilize C++, Python, CUDA, and TensorRT while working with LLM inference pipelines like Ollama, Llama.cpp, and vLLM. You will also leverage orchestration frameworks such as OpenClaw, Hermes, and LangChain to solve the problem of running autonomous agents safely on consumer-grade hardware.
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