Senior LLM Systems Engineer, NeMo Microservices Platform

NVIDIA

NVIDIA

Software Engineering
Santa Clara, CA, USA · North Carolina, USA · Remote · Remote · Washington, USA · Canada · United States · Remote · United States · Washington, DC, USA · Remote · Massachusetts, USA · United States · Remote
USD 148k-287,500 / year + Equity
Posted on May 20, 2025

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people. Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Come join the team and see how you can make a lasting impact on the world.

We are looking for a Senior LLM Systems Engineer to help build our NeMo Microservice Platform. Our team is building the primitives to let software engineers training and deploying AI at scale. We are dedicated to developing speech and NLP technologies that tackle real problems. We contribute to all steps of the machine learning lifecycle: from conceptualization, to applied research, engineering for optimized inference, and deployment.

What you'll be doing:

  • Development of distributed cloud applications, and microservices and platform able to scale up to huge models

  • Creating microservices for task-specific AI cloud services

  • Implementing core infrastructure for cloud-native AI evaluation

  • Improving service stability, observability and reliability

  • Relentlessly pursue speed of light performance under high load

What we need to see:

  • BS, Masters, or equivalent experience in computer science, computer architecture, or related field

  • 5+ years of experience

  • Ability to work independently, define project goals and scope, interact directly with open source community, and manage your own development effort

  • Experience implementing microservices and cloud-native applications using HTTP REST, gRPC, protobuf, JSON and related technologies

  • Understanding of performance, security and reliability in complex distributed infrastructure

  • Excellent Python programming and software design skills, including debugging, performance and service health analysis, and test design.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • Background with the enterprise software life cycle

  • Experience in deep learning research, particularly model evaluation techniques

  • Experience with Rust or Golang

The base salary range is 148,000 USD - 287,500 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits. NVIDIA accepts applications on an ongoing basis.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.#deeplearning