Senior Applied AI Engineer

Nvidia

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$152,000–$241,500 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Similar $204k
This role $197k
$141k most similar roles pay here $257k

This role pays more than 50% of similar roles. Most pay $162,000–$246,150 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $197k versus about $204k 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 899 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $184,000–$287,500 across 886 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Applied AI Engineer

As a Senior Applied AI Engineer, you will join the team to build intelligent software systems that improve engineering productivity and software quality at scale. You will develop AI-powered workflows and services designed to analyze complex code changes, surface signals from large datasets, and accelerate debugging and decision-making processes. Your daily responsibilities include building production services for orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, and monitoring while evaluating emerging models and frameworks to optimize quality, latency, and cost. The role requires expertise in Python, LLM-based applications, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, and orchestration frameworks. You will work within Git-based development environments involving multi-repository codebases. This position focuses on the intersection of software engineering and machine learning to solve practical problems related to developer tools, code intelligence, testing, and automated debugging workflows in real engineering environments.

What you'll do

  • Develop AI-powered workflows and services to improve software quality and engineering productivity.
  • Build systems to analyze large codebases and identify meaningful signals from engineering datasets.
  • Create production-grade infrastructure for AI applications including orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, and monitoring.
  • Translate complex developer workflow problems into practical, reliable AI solutions.
  • Evaluate emerging models, frameworks, and tools to optimize quality, latency, reliability, and cost.
  • Manage the full project lifecycle from initial concept through production deployment and continuous improvement.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of proven experience or related field.
  • B.S. or higher degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals with excellent Python skills and experience building production-quality systems.
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying AI/ML systems, data-intensive backend services, or intelligent automation workflows.
  • Experience with LLM-based applications, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, or orchestration frameworks.
  • Strong familiarity with Git-based development workflows and large multi-repository codebases.
  • Experience building AI systems for developer tools, code intelligence, software quality, testing, or debugging (preferred).
  • Familiarity with model evaluation, prompt design, observability, and production monitoring for AI systems (preferred).

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