Senior AI Engineer

Nvidia

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$224,000–$356,500 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
7 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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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 1814 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior AI Engineer

The Senior AI Engineer joins the AI & Automation Supply Chain Business Transformations team to develop enterprise-grade agentic AI systems for Supply Chain Operations. You will own the full lifecycle management of multi-agent architectures, RAG pipelines, and orchestration frameworks, translating requirements into technical designs and managing development activities. Key responsibilities include defining agent autonomy boundaries, designing observability frameworks for hallucination analysis, and ensuring integration with enterprise data sources. You will utilize Python, SQL, JSON, and Java while leveraging LLMs, LangChain, and NVIDIA’s NeMo and AIQ technologies. The role requires expertise in vector databases, embeddings, and containerized deployments across hybrid cloud environments. You will solve complex supply chain problems by codifying decision logics into trusted, scalable, and innovative agentic platforms with a strong focus on content security.

What does a AI Engineer earn in California?

Median $246150 from 108 postings across 18 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Develop and own enterprise-grade Agentic AI systems including multi-agent architectures, RAG pipelines, and orchestration frameworks.
  • Translate business requirements into technical design documentation, user stories, and end-to-end integration tests.
  • Integrate AI agents with enterprise IT and operations data sources while ensuring strict content security.
  • Drive architectural decisions for deployment models across on-prem, cloud, hybrid, and containerized environments.
  • Define agent autonomy boundaries, human-in-the-loop workflows, and escalation strategies for supply chain use cases.
  • Design and implement observability and evaluation frameworks to monitor latency, accuracy, cost, and hallucinations.
  • Manage development team activities and establish Hypercare support models for production AI solutions.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
  • 12+ years of experience in software architecture, systems design, or enterprise platform engineering.
  • At least 2+ years of experience as a Palantir AI Foundry and AIP platform Forward Deployment Engineer.
  • Hands-on expertise in Python for production-grade AI systems, plus experience in SQL, JSON, and backend service development (Java a plus).
  • Proficiency in AI/ML systems, generative AI, or agentic AI frameworks including LLMs, RAG architectures, and orchestration frameworks.
  • Experience with vector databases, embeddings, retrieval optimization, and designing multi-agent communication patterns.
  • Experience integrating enterprise platforms (ERP, CRM, ITSM) with APIs and data connectors.
  • Experience with containerized deployments, Kubernetes, and NVIDIA AI technologies like NeMo or AIQ (preferred).

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