NVIDIA
Senior Applied AI Engineer
$152K–$242K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of proven experience or related field.
- Education
- B.S. or higher degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science/Engineering and related field.
About the job
Build and deploy AI-powered systems and services that analyze code and engineering data to improve software quality, developer workflows, and engineering productivity.
What you'll do
- Develop AI workflows for analyzing codebases, code changes, and engineering signals.
- Build and maintain production infrastructure for AI applications, including orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, and monitoring.
- Drive AI projects from concept through production deployment and continuous improvement.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, excellent Python skills, and experience building production-quality systems.
- Hands-on experience building and deploying AI or ML systems, data-intensive backend services, or intelligent automation workflows.
- Experience with LLM-based applications, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, or orchestration frameworks.
- Familiarity with Git-based workflows, including commits, branches, diffs, and large multi-repository codebases.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI for developer tools, code intelligence, software quality, testing, or debugging.
- Familiarity with AI model evaluation, prompt and context design, observability, and production monitoring.
Pay
152,000 USD - 241,500 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, LLM-based applications, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, orchestration frameworks, Git
AI focus
Build AI-powered developer workflows and production services for code analysis, engineering signal discovery, debugging, and decision-making; evaluate models and improve quality, latency, reliability, and cost.
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