Senior Software Engineer, Agent Simulation and Evaluation

Nvidia

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

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Similar $194k
This role $197k
$135k most similar roles pay here $253k

This role pays more than 59% of similar roles. Most pay $165,375–$222,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $197k versus about $194k 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 896 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Agent Simulation and Evaluation

As a Senior Software Engineer, Agent Simulation and Evaluation, you will join the LPU organization to build agentic systems that automate simulation, evaluation, performance analysis, and reporting. You will develop tools to configure experiments, analyze results, identify regressions, and recommend follow-up work while automating critical workflows like benchmarking, workload characterization, capacity planning, and release qualification. The role involves analyzing inference characteristics of LLMs, reasoning models, coding agents, and multimodal models to build and validate performance models for GPU, LPU, and heterogeneous systems. You will utilize Python to create reliable engineering tools and leverage your knowledge of model architectures and hardware. This position addresses the increasing complexity of evaluating and optimizing AI systems across different accelerator platforms, specifically focusing on how emerging workloads map to future hardware through advanced simulation and evaluation techniques.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

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What you'll do

  • Build agentic systems to automate simulation, evaluation, performance analysis, and reporting.
  • Develop tools to configure experiments, run evaluations, and identify regressions.
  • Analyze inference characteristics of LLMs, reasoning models, coding agents, and multimodal models.
  • Build and validate performance models for GPU, LPU, and heterogeneous hardware systems.
  • Automate critical workflows including benchmarking, workload characterization, and capacity planning.
  • Develop tools to recommend follow-up work based on analyzed evaluation results.
  • Improve simulation quality and accelerate engineering decisions across hardware and software teams.

What we're looking for

  • MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of relevant software development experience.
  • 2 years of experience building AI agents or building AI-backed engineering systems.
  • Strong Python skills and experience building reliable engineering tools.
  • Experience with simulation, profiling, benchmarking, or performance modeling.
  • Familiarity with modern model architectures and AI inference workloads.
  • Experience evaluating AI models or agents and analyzing performance.
  • Knowledge of GPU/accelerator architecture, distributed inference, or high-performance computing (preferred).

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