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NVIDIA

High-Performance LLM Training Engineer

NVIDIA
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senior full-time 124,000 USD - 195,500 USD for Level 2, and 152,000 USD - 241

First indexed 22 Oct 2026

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.