NVIDIA
Software Engineer, OpenShell
$184K–$288K
US, Remote · Full-time · Posted Jul 31, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of professional practical experience in research engineering, software development, or a related technical field.
- Education
- MS/PhD in Computer Science, Physics, or a related field or equivalent experience.
About the job
Translate and validate advances in AI agents, then prototype and help integrate them into OpenShell’s secure runtime, tools, and developer workflows.
What you'll do
- Track, reproduce, benchmark, and adapt research in agentic systems for OpenShell.
- Build prototypes and evaluation or red-team harnesses to assess agent capabilities, reliability, and security.
- Collaborate across teams to turn validated ideas into secure product features and developer workflows.
What they ask for
- Strong background turning research into reusable products, tools, benchmarks, or production systems at scale.
- Deep experience in several listed areas, including LLMs, agent harnesses, evaluation frameworks, inference infrastructure, or agent safety/security.
- Ability to conduct independent technical investigations, run experiments, and communicate findings.
- Strong product sense, focus on real-world impact, and ability to collaborate across teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with secure agent runtimes, tool sandboxing, capability-based security, or enterprise policy systems.
- Experience with enterprise compliance or governance, inference infrastructure, agent systems, or relevant open-source software.
Pay
184,000 USD - 287,500 USD (base salary)
Tools
Triton, TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, SGLang, Ray, Kubernetes
AI focus
Research, prototype, evaluate, and integrate AI agent methods and secure agent workflows into production runtime infrastructure.
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