Principal Engineer, Local AI - Agents and Systems
Nvidia
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This role pays more than 67% of similar roles. Most pay $165,750–$246,150 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $236k versus about $206k 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 a Senior Engineer, Local AI - Agents and Systems, you will lead technical efforts to develop advanced AI agent frameworks and local runtimes on Windows environments for GeForce RTX GPUs. You will build the technical roadmap to bring self-evolving AI assistants to consumer PCs while ensuring they operate within policy-based privacy and security frameworks involving filesystem access and secure inference routing. Your daily work involves optimizing agent runtimes, mentoring other engineers, and writing production-ready code in C++ and Python. The role requires expertise in Windows OS internals, sandboxing technologies, and LLM inference pipelines such as Ollama, Llama.cpp, and vLLM. You will also utilize CUDA, TensorRT, and orchestration frameworks like OpenClaw, Hermes, or LangChain to solve the challenge of running autonomous multi-agent systems safely on local hardware.
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