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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
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Software Engineer, DGX Cloud AI Infrastructure - New College Grad 2026 will join the team to focus on the bring-up, triage, benchmarking, analysis, and optimization of distributed training and inference workloads across multi-GPU and multi-node deployments. The role involves debugging large-scale AI clusters, tuning pre-training and post-training workloads, and developing automated benchmarking tools and failure-attribution workflows. You will perform root-cause analysis for failures in distributed environments while managing runtime settings and communication parameters. Key technical requirements include proficiency in Python and C/C++, along with experience in PyTorch, NeMo, Megatron, and TensorRT-LLM. Candidates should possess skills in CUDA-aware distributed execution, the RDMA software stack including NCCL and InfiniBand, and containerized cluster environments. The work centers on solving complex problems in deep learning systems, GPU performance, and large-scale infrastructure for generative AI workloads.
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