# AI Inference Research Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 108,000 USD - 178,250 USD for Level 1, and 124,000 USD - 195,500 USD for Level 2
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking an AI Inference Research Engineer to join our team. You will be working on developing a world-class understanding of coding agent workloads and partnering with teams across NVIDIA's hardware and software stack to push the coding agent ecosystem to the frontier of performance.

**Responsibilities:**

- Building and modifying coding agent harnesses to research the impact of different architectural decisions

- Architecting AI-driven systems that analyze inference workload dynamics of leading agentic harnesses under realistic conditions

- Collaborating with teams across NVIDIA's software and hardware stack to extend co-design to the harness layer

**Requirements:**

- Proven track record building or modifying coding agent harnesses at scale

- Familiarity with agent evaluation frameworks such as Harbor, and inference performance metrics including TTFT, throughput, and ITL

- Hands-on use of frontier coding agents such as Codex and Claude Code, driving performance to the frontier

- Rigorous, scientific approach to data collection, analysis, and research

- BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience

**Nice to Have:**

- Work experience at an AI inference or agent company

- Experience with building modern agentic or AI-backed systems

- Ability to translate data into specific product improvements with the end user in mind

- Open source projects showcasing agentic AI applications

- MS in Computer Science or a related field

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 108,000 USD - 178,250 USD for Level 1, and 124,000 USD - 195,500 USD for Level 2. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- coding agent harnesses
- AI-driven systems
- agent evaluation frameworks
- inference performance metrics
- Computer Science

### Nice to have
- AI inference
- agentic systems
- data analysis
- open source projects

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