Drimva

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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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)