Senior Research Engineer - AI Coding Tools

Nvidia

Actively hiring
Santa Clara, US Posted 29 days ago $224,000–$356,500 / year
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TL;DR

NVIDIA’s AI Developer Tools organization seeks a Senior Research Engineer to join its high-velocity, in-person Research team focused on developing AI coding agents, models, datasets, and evaluations. This role involves building novel coding agents that assist CUDA developers, designing rigorous evaluations like ComputeEval benchmarks, fine-tuning code LLMs, and integrating NVIDIA’s developer tools with AI capabilities through MCP servers and Agent Skills. The ideal candidate has over 12 years of industry experience in applied AI/ML, particularly in the AI-for-code domain, with strong Python proficiency and hands-on experience in evaluating and fine-tuning large language models. They should also be familiar with systems like context management and prompt caching for LLM-powered agents, have a track record of shipping real-world products, and possess expertise in CUDA or GPU programming alongside NVIDIA profiling tools.

Skills

Python LLMs CUDA Nsight Compute Nsight Systems cuDNN cuBLAS Thrust CUB MCP Agent Skills RAG Synthetic Data Generation CI/CD Git GitHub Linux Cloud Services PostgreSQL Kubernetes Terraform

What you'll do

  • Build and improve novel coding agents that assist CUDA developers.
  • Design and implement evaluations for AI-powered CUDA development benchmarks.
  • Fine-tune code LLMs and collaborate on datasets for foundation models.
  • Develop interfaces to integrate NVIDIA developer tools with AI agents.
  • Generate and validate synthetic data for training and evaluating CUDA programming.
  • Deliver new knowledge to frontier LLMs through RAG and skill-based systems.
  • Collaborate with product teams to turn research into shipping features.

What we're looking for

  • 12+ years of industry experience in applied AI/ML, including recent work in AI-for-code.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and sound software engineering practices.
  • Hands-on experience fine-tuning or evaluating large language models (LLMs).
  • Fluency with the systems side of LLM-powered agents, including context management and tool-use design.
  • Experience designing rigorous evaluations for code generation or agentic systems.
  • Track record of shipping real-world AI-for-code products to users.

Market check

Salary context

This $224,000–$356,500 range sits above 97% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$170,000–$257,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$168,250–$246,150

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

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 801 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $184,000–$287,500 across 797 roles with salary data.

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