NVIDIA

Artificial Intelligence

SeniorDeepLearningSoftwareEngineer,Inference

$184–357k Santa Clara, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Senior Deep Learning Software Engineer, Inference at NVIDIA. Skills: Deep Learning Inference, GPU-accelerated software, SGLang, vLLM, LLM, Generative AI, performance optimization, CUDA, OAI Triton, CUTLASS. design, build, and optimize the GPU-accelerated software that powers today’s most sophisticated AI applications. developing and maintaining high-performance deep learning frameworks, including SGLang and vLLM”

What You'll Achieve.

driving performance improvements for state-of-the-art LLM and Generative AI models; facilitating smooth deployment and serving of groundbreaking language models; drive advancements in the field

Industry & Context.

Artificial Intelligence
Problems you'll solve

performance optimization; analysis; tuning; performance modeling; profiling; debug; code optimization

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Masters or PhD or equivalent experience in relevant field (Computer Engineering, Computer Science, EECS, AI), 6+ years of relevant software development experience, Excellent C/C++ programming and software design skills

Nice to Have

SW Agile skills are helpful, Python experience is a plus, Prior experience with training, deploying or optimizing the inference of DL models in production is a plus, Prior background with performance modeling, profiling, debug, and code optimization or architectural knowledge of CPU and GPU is a plus, Contribute to Deep Learning Software projects, such as PyTorch, vLLM, and SGLang to drive advancements in the field, Experience with Multi-GPU Communications (NCCL, NVSHMEM), Experience building and shipping products to enterprise customers, GPU programming experience (CUDA, OAI TRITON or CUTLASS)

What You'll Do.

and optimize the GPU-accelerated software that powers today’s most sophisticated AI applications

developing and maintaining high-performance deep learning frameworks

including SGLang and vLLM

improving these platforms

facilitating smooth deployment and serving of groundbreaking language models

implement the latest algorithms for public release in frameworks like SGLang and vLLM

as well as other DL frameworks

identifying and driving performance improvements for state-of-the-art LLM and Generative AI models across NVIDIA accelerators

implement and optimize model serving pipelines

Performance optimization

and tuning of DL models in various domains like LLM

Multimodal and Generative AI

Scale performance of DL models across different architectures and types of NVIDIA accelerators

Contribute features and code to NVIDIA’s inference libraries

FlashInfer and LLM software solutions

Work with cross-collaborative teams across frameworks

NVIDIA libraries and inference optimization innovative solutions

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work with cross-collaborative teams across frameworks, NVIDIA libraries and inference optimization innovative solutions

Full Job Description

NVIDIA seeks a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Deep Learning Inference for our growing team. As a key contributor, you will help design, build, and optimize the GPU-accelerated software that powers today’s most sophisticated AI applications. Our team is responsible for developing and maintaining high-performance deep learning frameworks, including SGLang and vLLM, which are at the forefront of efficient large-scale model serving and inference. You will play a central role in improving these platforms, facilitating smooth deployment and serving of groundbreaking language models. You’ll work closely with the deep learning community to implement the latest algorithms for public release in frameworks like SGLang and vLLM, as well as other DL frameworks. Your work will focus on identifying and driving performance improvements for state-of-the-art LLM and Generative AI models across NVIDIA accelerators, from datacenter GPUs to edge SoCs. You'll bring to bear open-source tools and plugins—including CUTLASS, OAI Triton, NCCL, and CUDA kernels—to implement and optimize model serving pipelines. **What you 'll be doing:** * Performance optimization, analysis, and tuning of DL models in various domains like LLM, Multimodal and Generative AI. * Scale performance of DL models across different architectures and types of NVIDIA accelerators. * Contribute features and code to NVIDIA’s inference libraries, vLLM and SGLang, FlashInfer and LLM software solutions. * Work with cross-collaborative teams across frameworks, NVIDIA libraries and inference optimization innovative solutions. **What we need to see:** * Masters or PhD or equivalent experience in relevant field (Computer Engineering, Computer Science, EECS, AI). * 6+ years of relevant software development experience. * Excellent C/C++ programming and software design skills. SW Agile skills are helpful and Python experience is a plus. * Prior experience with training, deploying or optimizing the inference of DL models in

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