Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to drive technical engagement with partners and customers across NVIDIA's open model portfolio, including NVIDIA Nemotron and NVIDIA Cosmos.

The mission is to turn open models into production-ready AI tuned to a specific domain, from post-training through harness optimization.

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you will:

• Drive AI solutions from discovery and scoping through post-training, harness optimization, and deployment, working alongside partners and customers.
• Build scalable architectures and deployment plans to take models to production.
• Lead technical engagements by scoping the work, shaping statements of work, and driving delivery with partner engineering teams and joint customers.
• Connect NVIDIA's model research to partner and customer use cases, unlocking the post-trainability and inference cost-effectiveness of our models.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in ML or software engineering, applied AI, FDE, or solutions architecture, including 3–5+ years of hands-on LLM post-training and taking models to production.
• Solid fundamentals in deep learning and machine learning.
• Good understanding of large-scale distributed training and inference performance optimization.
• Hands-on experience with post-training data, including synthetic data pipelines, dataset curation and filtering, and evaluation sets.
• Proficiency in PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, Python, and Linux.
• Proven ability to scope an engagement, shape an SOW, and lead delivery with partners and customers.

Nice to have:

• Hands-on experience with Nemotron, Cosmos, and other open models.
• Experience with multimodal or world-foundation-model post-training, and running training jobs on large GPU clusters with SLURM or Kubernetes.
• History of enabling partners and customers to successfully adopt open models and NVIDIA technologies and platforms.

Salary: 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5.

Benefits: You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.