Senior Software Engineer, Cosmos Infrastructure and End to End Performance

Nvidia

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Cosmos Infrastructure and End to End Performance

As a Senior Software Engineer, Cosmos Infrastructure and End to End Performance, you will join the team building the foundational platform for the Physical AI ecosystem. You will build state-of-the-art world foundation models, drive end-to-end performance analysis, and lead hardware-software codesign for data center and edge deployments. Your daily responsibilities include developing infrastructure to automate multimodal data ingestion, curation, pre-training, post-training, and quantization. You will utilize Distributed PyTorch, Python, C/C++, and CUDA to optimize AI workloads on large-scale parallel and distributed accelerator-based systems. The role requires expertise in computer architecture, networking, and storage systems to solve problems related to world generation and physical reasoning. You will also work with transformer models, including autoregressive and diffusion architectures, to enable developers to simulate physical environments for robots and autonomous vehicles.

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What you'll do

  • Build state-of-the-art world foundation models like Cosmos3.
  • Conduct end-to-end performance analysis and drive HW-SW codesign for data center and edge deployments.
  • Develop infrastructure to automate data ingestion, curation, pre-training, and post-training processes.
  • Optimize model export, quantization, and deployment for edge environments.
  • Design systems for high robustness and fault tolerance.
  • Engage with customers to ensure model usability and ecosystem enablement.

What we're looking for

  • A Master's in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related STEM degree or equivalent experience.
  • 5 years of relevant work experience.
  • Expertise in large scale parallel and distributed accelerator-based systems.
  • Expertise optimizing performance and AI workloads on large scale systems, including performance modeling and benchmarking.
  • Proficiency in Distributed PyTorch, Python, and C/C++.
  • Strong background in Computer Architecture, Networking, Storage systems, and Accelerators.
  • Understanding of DNNs and their use in emerging AI/ML applications and services.
  • Expertise with at least one public CSP infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI, etc.).
  • Deep understanding of World Foundation Models and their application to Physical AI.
  • Experience developing infrastructure to automate multimodal data ingestion and curation.
  • Experience driving tokenization and data set preparation (preferred).
  • Prior experience building transformer models or driving Post training, fine-tuning, and RL algorithms.
  • Understanding of how to optimize for inference, export, quantization, and containerization.
  • Familiarity with popular AI frameworks such as TensorFlow, JAX, Cosmos, Megatron-LM, Tensort-LLM, or VLLM (preferred).
  • Proficiency in CUDA (preferred).

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