NVIDIA
Senior Staff AI Engineer – Finance
$200K–$322K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years building and operating production systems, including 3+ years with LLM/agent systems.
- Education
- Master's or PhD (or equivalent experience) in computer science, engineering, data science, or a related technical field.
About the job
Build and operate AI-powered applications, agents, and automation for Finance, setting technical direction and applying foundation models and customized Nemotron models to finance use cases.
What you'll do
- Develop and own agentic systems end to end, including evaluation, retrieval quality, and production reliability.
- Set architecture, shared patterns, and quality standards; mentor engineers and represent AI engineering to leaders.
- Evaluate emerging models and tools, make build/no-build recommendations, and partner on fine-tuning and post-training Nemotron models.
What they ask for
- Master's or PhD (or equivalent experience) in a related technical field.
- 12+ years building and operating production systems, including 3+ years with LLM/agent systems.
- Track record shipping and owning multiple LLM-powered applications or agents in production; hands-on experience with skill-based workflows, harnesses, and agent orchestration frameworks.
- Expertise in advanced retrieval, LLM evaluations and observability; strong Python, engineering fundamentals, and knowledge of LLM security and safety risks, networks, and operating systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with NVIDIA's applied AI stack; recognized applied AI expertise such as talks, open-source contributions, or published work.
- Large tech company and/or finance-adjacent experience; depth in fine-tuning and reinforcement learning.
Pay
200,000 USD - 322,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, LLM, Nemotron
AI focus
Build and operate finance-focused AI agents and applications; evaluate models and retrieval approaches; leverage, fine-tune, and post-train Nemotron models.
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