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NVIDIA

Senior Software Engineer, Cosmos Infrastructure and End to End Performance

NVIDIA
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senior full-time $152,000 - $241,500

First indexed 9 Sept 2026

Description

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our NVIDIA Cosmos team, which focuses on building an open omni-model platform of generative world foundation models (WFMs) designed to accelerate physical AI. The successful candidate will work on building and optimizing large-scale parallel and distributed systems, driving end-to-end performance analysis, and collaborating with customers to ensure ease of use.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Building State-of-the-Art (SoTA) world foundation models, such as Cosmos3
  • Engaging in end-to-end performance analysis and HW-SW co-design for data center infrastructure and Edge deployments
  • Collaborating with customers to ensure ease of use and enablement of the ecosystem
  • Developing infrastructure to improve and automate data ingestion, curation, pre-training, post-training, export/quantization, and deployment on the edge
  • Designing for robustness and fault tolerance

Requirements:

  • Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related STEM field, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of relevant work experience
  • Expertise in large-scale parallel and distributed accelerator-based systems
  • Proficiency in Distributed PyTorch, Python, C/C++, and computer architecture, networking, storage systems, and accelerators
  • Understanding of DNNs and their applications in emerging AI/ML services
  • Experience with public CSP infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI, etc.)
  • Familiarity with world foundation models and their applications to Physical AI

Nice to Have:

  • Familiarity with popular AI frameworks (TensorFlow, JAX, Cosmos, Megatron-LM, etc.)
  • Proficiency in CUDA
  • High intellectual curiosity and excellent interpersonal skills

Compensation:

  • Base salary range: $152,000 - $241,500 (Level 3) or $184,000 - $287,500 (Level 4)
  • Equity and benefits package