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$188k
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Based on 240 similar postings.
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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
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Listed pay typically runs
$184,000–$287,500
across 1110 roles with salary data.
The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer joins the team to drive technical engagement with partners and customers across the open model portfolio, including NVIDIA Nemotron and NVIDIA Cosmos. This role involves turning open models into production-ready AI by leading technical engagements from discovery through post-training and harness optimization. Day-to-day responsibilities include building synthetic data pipelines, designing evaluations, and performing supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and LoRA. The engineer will also optimize inference for cost-effectiveness and create reusable recipes and playbooks for the ecosystem. Required skills include proficiency in PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, Python, and Linux, alongside expertise in large-scale distributed training and multi-GPU systems. The work focuses on unlocking the post-trainability and inference cost-effectiveness of open models for specific domain applications.
What does a Forward Deployed Engineer earn?
Median $219575 from 46 postings across 19 companies.
Python
C++
Rust
C
TypeScript
CUDA
HIP
PyTorch
Hugging Face
JAX
TensorFlow
Ray
vLLM
LLM Post-training
Reinforcement Learning
RLHF
PPO
DPO
GRPO
Preference Optimization
Reward Modeling
Distributed Systems
High-Performance Computing
Data Pipelines