# High-Performance LLM Training Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 124,000 USD - 195,500 USD for Level 2, and 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're looking for a High-Performance LLM Training Engineer to optimize NVIDIA's high-performance LLM software stack in frameworks like PyTorch and JAX for high-performance pre-training and post-training on thousands of GPUs.

**What you'll be doing:**

- Understand, analyze, profile, and optimize AI training workloads on innovative hardware and software platforms.

- Prioritize and solve problems across all state-of-the-art LLMs.

- Implement production-quality software in multiple layers of NVIDIA's deep learning platform stack.

- Implement key LLM training workloads in NVIDIA's proprietary processor and system simulators.

- Build agentic tools to automate workload analysis and optimization.

**What we want to see:**

- M.S. or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience).

- Strong background in deep learning and neural networks, particularly model training optimizations.

- Deep background in computer architecture and familiarity with GPU architecture fundamentals.

- Proven experience analyzing and tuning application performance and processor and system-level performance modeling.

- Programming skills in C++, Python, and CUDA.

You'll receive a highly competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, including equity.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Python
- CUDA
- deep learning
- neural networks
- computer architecture
- GPU architecture

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