NVIDIA
Senior Developer Technology Engineer - Agentic AI
$152K–$288K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of work experience as a software developer.
- Education
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related degree (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Optimizes partner applications and CPU, AI, and 3D graphics workloads for performance on NVIDIA RTX and DGX SoCs, while feeding real-world insights into future platforms.
What you'll do
- Lead partner engagements to optimize applications for end-to-end performance on RTX and DGX SoCs.
- Profile, debug, and optimize compute-intensive CPU, AI, and 3D graphics workloads.
- Collaborate across software, driver, architecture, and research teams; mentor junior engineers.
What they ask for
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related degree (or equivalent experience).
- 5+ years of work experience as a software developer.
- Proficiency in C/C++, Python, software design, and parallel programming; expertise developing native software on Windows and Linux.
- Familiarity with agents for software development and related tasks; experience with CPU/GPU profiling and debugging tools and fundamental CPU or GPU architecture knowledge.
Nice to have
- Expertise in agentic creative/professional workflows such as CAD, 3D rendering, video, or image editing.
- Knowledge of ARM architecture, ARM assembly and memory model; instruction set extensions; GPU APIs; or AI deployment on NPUs and ARM architectures.
Pay
152,000 USD - 241,500 USD base salary (Level 3); 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD base salary (Level 4)
Tools
C/C++, Python, Windows, Linux, ARM, SSE, AVX, NEON
AI focus
Accelerates agentic AI use cases by optimizing AI workloads and partner applications on RTX and DGX SoCs; requires familiarity with software-development agents.
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