Senior AI and Quant DevTech Engineer

Nvidia

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Santa Clara, CANew York, NY
Salary
$152,000–$241,500 / yr
Posted
37 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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This role $197k
$141k most similar roles pay here $254k

This role pays more than 50% of similar roles. Most pay $162,000–$242,675 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $197k versus about $202k for comparable roles.

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About Nvidia

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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TL;DR · Senior AI and Quant DevTech Engineer

As a Senior AI and Quant DevTech Engineer, you will join a team focused on the intersection of artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and financial markets. You will design and develop groundbreaking techniques to accelerate complex workloads by analyzing, optimizing, and scaling performance across modern CPU and GPU architectures. Your daily work involves profiling and eliminating bottlenecks from algorithms to kernels while collaborating with research and hardware teams to influence future system software and programming models. The role requires a Master’s or PhD degree and over five years of experience in CUDA, C/C++, and linear algebra. You will specifically work on optimizing machine learning methods like decision trees and Monte Carlo simulations using tools such as TensorRT, TensorRT-LLM, and cuTile to solve high-performance computational problems within the financial systems domain.

What you'll do

  • Develop techniques to accelerate high-performance workloads at the intersection of AI, math, and financial systems.
  • Optimize and scale complex AI and HPC workloads for modern CPU and GPU architectures.
  • Profile and eliminate performance bottlenecks across algorithms, kernels, and system-level behaviors.
  • Publish and present technical work in conferences, talks, and blogs to educate the developer community.
  • Influence the design of future hardware architectures, system software, libraries, and programming models.
  • Implement inference optimization techniques and deploy optimized AI models in production environments.
  • Parallelize and optimize machine learning methods such as decision trees and Monte Carlo simulations.

What we're looking for

  • Strong hands-on experience with CUDA and parallel programming.
  • Deep understanding of CPU/GPU architecture fundamentals and their impact on performance.
  • Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or a related field.
  • Fluency in C/C++ and a solid foundation in algorithms and software design.
  • 5+ years of relevant work or research experience.
  • Proven experience improving the performance of large-scale computational applications on GPUs.
  • Excellent understanding of linear algebra.
  • Strong communication, organizational skills, and a logical approach to problem-solving.

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