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NVIDIA

Senior Systems Software Engineer, Semiconductor Systems Inspection

NVIDIA
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senior full-time Santa Clara, CA

First indexed 18 Jun 2026

Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Systems Software Engineer to develop AI products for semiconductor analysis. The role involves creating production-ready models and inference pipelines for semiconductor manufacturing projects, focusing on computer vision, multimodal AI, anomaly detection, model compression, and deployment optimization.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Define and prototype AI system architectures for semiconductor defect inspection.
  • Advance WFM capabilities for semiconductor inspection, including multimodal representation learning and model adaptation.
  • Integrate and enhance existing computer vision and multimodal inspection workflows.
  • Design agentic inspection flows for air-gapped fab environments.
  • Improve model quality and fab decision support using semiconductor metrology and inspection context.
  • Address noisy, limited, and shifting fab data.
  • Convert research into customer-ready semiconductor inspection products.
  • Partner with teams to define roadmap priorities for next-generation semiconductor AI inspection systems.

Requirements:

  • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 3+ years of experience in deep learning, machine learning, computer vision, or applied AI.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and experience with modern deep learning frameworks.
  • Experience with foundational world models in computer vision.
  • Familiarity with self-supervised, few-shot, weakly supervised, unsupervised, or domain adaptation approaches.
  • Strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with semiconductor inspection, industrial visual inspection, or manufacturing AI.
  • Knowledge of NVIDIA software and deployment tools.
  • Experience building end-to-end pipelines for production settings.

NVIDIA offers a competitive salary package and benefits.