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versus about
$176k
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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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Software Engineer, OpenShell joins the NVIDIA OpenShell team to develop runtime infrastructure for secure, scalable, and production-grade AI agents. This role sits at the intersection of research and engineering, where you will identify promising academic and industrial methods to integrate into tools and workflows. You will be responsible for tracking cutting-edge developments in tool use, planning, memory, and agent safety while building rapid prototypes, evaluation loops, and red-team harnesses. The work focuses on solving problems related to agent reliability, security, and developer experience within enterprise systems. Required expertise includes LLMs, multimodal generative models, inference infrastructure, and adversarial ML. You will utilize tools such as Triton, TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, SGLang, Ray, and Kubernetes to build secure-by-default workflows for agents interacting with code, files, and credentials in complex environments.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 775 postings across 63 companies.
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