Nvidia

Senior Engineer, Local AI - Agents and Systems

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2 days ago
Redmond, WA, USA or Santa Clara, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$184k - $357k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead development of AI agent frameworks and local runtimes for Windows environments.
  • Define the technical roadmap for always-on, self-evolving AI assistants on GeForce RTX PCs and laptops.
  • Optimize agent runtimes and implement policy-based privacy and security controls for filesystem access, inference routing, and network egress.
  • Collaborate with AI research teams, driver teams, internal hardware teams, and the open-source OpenClaw community.
  • Mentor engineers, establish AI agent deployment guidelines, and write reliable production-ready code.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience, including at least 3+ years in a Staff or Lead Architect role.
  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
  • Deep knowledge of Windows OS internals, process isolation, sandboxing technologies, and system-level security architecture.
  • Experience with LLM inference pipelines including Ollama, Llama.cpp, and vLLM, plus GPU-accelerated computing with CUDA and TensorRT.
  • Experience running local models on consumer-grade hardware and working with agentic frameworks such as OpenClaw, Hermes, and LangChain.
  • Proficiency in multiple programming languages, particularly C++ and Python.
  • Experience building virtualization, containerization, or robust sandboxing tools for Windows.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary ranging from $184,000 to $287,500 for Level 4 or $224,000 to $356,500 for Level 5.
  • Eligible for equity and comprehensive benefits.
  • Applications are accepted at least until October 3, 2026.
  • The posting describes an existing vacancy.

Tech Stack

C++PythonWindows

Categories

Nvidia

About Nvidia

10,000+ employees

Nvidia designs and sells GPUs and accelerated computing platforms for data centers, AI/ML, graphics, gaming, and automotive, monetizing through hardware, software platforms (CUDA, AI frameworks), and systems like DGX and networking. Customers include cloud providers, enterprises, researchers, and OEMs. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ under NVDA.

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