NVIDIA is hiring a Solutions Architect, Foundation Models to join its Partner Solutions Architecture team as a strategic technical expert and hands-on advisor. This role involves guiding partners in building, fine-tuning, optimizing, and deploying foundation model solutions for customer workloads across reasoning, multimodal models, and production inference. Key responsibilities include defining benchmark plans, synthetic data workflows, and repeatable validation recipes, advising on compute planning, and developing reference architectures using CUDA, NeMo, Nemotron, Dynamo, TensorRT-LLM, Triton, and related tools. The ideal candidate holds an MSc or PhD in a relevant field with extensive experience in large-scale inference systems and strong programming skills in Python, PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow. Familiarity with GPU infrastructure and active open-source contributions are also highly valued.
Skills
Python
PyTorch
JAX
TensorFlow
NVIDIA_NeMo
Nemotron
Dynamo
TensorRT-LLM
Triton
vLLM
CUDA
NVLink
InfiniBand
MPI
NCCL
CI/CD
Prometheus
Grafana
What you'll do
Serve as the lead technical advisor for partners on reasoning and multimodal models.
Guide partners to optimize customer workloads through fine-tuning and benchmarking.
Define benchmark plans and validation recipes for repeatable testing processes.
Advise on compute planning including GPU selection, network configuration, and storage.
Develop reference architectures and sizing models for production-readiness testing.
What we're looking for
MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related fields with 5+ years of experience in LLMs and large-scale inference systems.
Hands-on expertise in fine-tuning, benchmarking, evaluation, optimization, and production deployment of foundation models.
Strong programming skills in Python and proficiency with PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, Nemotron, NeMo, Dynamo, TensorRT-LLM, Triton, vLLM.
Experience helping partners or customers deploy large-scale AI systems in production environments.
Familiarity with GPU infrastructure including NVLink, InfiniBand, MPI, NCCL, and cluster technologies.
Active contributions to open-source software projects related to model tooling, inference, evaluation, or performance optimization.
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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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