Drimva

NVIDIA

Senior Solutions Architect, AI Inference

$184K–$356K

US, CA, Santa Clara +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026

Location
US, CA, Santa Clara
US, Remote
Experience
6+ years in a relevant customer-facing architecture or engineering role, including 2+ years with AI workloads on Kubernetes.
Education
BS in CS/Engineering or equivalent experience.

About the job

Build and operate inference architectures for strategic partners, helping scale AI services and improve performance and reliability across large GPU infrastructure.

What you'll do

  • Advise inference partners, share NVIDIA’s stack, and bring product insights back to internal teams.
  • Build inference recipes and accelerate pipelines using serving backends, including for disaggregated inference.
  • Promote DevOps best practices and provide technical leadership on deployment and complex issues.

What they ask for

  • 6+ years in Solutions Architecture, Solution Engineering, Forward-Deployed Engineering, or similar, deploying distributed systems in customer engagements, including 2+ years with AI workloads on Kubernetes.
  • Experience with one of NVIDIA Dynamo, Triton Inference Server, or TensorRT-LLM for model optimization and serving.
  • Deep knowledge of modern inference practices, including disaggregated serving, multi-tier KV cache management, speculative decoding, quantization, and custom inference kernels.
  • Hands-on full-stack agent design with modern sandboxing, memory and retrieval systems, evaluation, skill design, and governance.

Nice to have

  • Prior experience deploying NVIDIA inference technologies such as Dynamo, NIXL, and Grove.
  • Experience with model customization techniques and related data curation, or contributions to relevant open-source projects.

Pay

184,000 USD - 287,500 USD base salary (Level 4); 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD base salary (Level 5)

Tools

NVIDIA Dynamo, Triton Inference Server, TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, SGLang, Kubernetes, NIXL, Grove

AI focus

Scale AI inference and token generation; optimize and serve models, deploy disaggregated inference, and design full-stack agents.

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