# Senior Software Engineer, Agent Performance Modeling

Hiring organization: [NVIDIA](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/nvidia)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/39fba1a9-e396-4348-a87d-b0cc2eee3a74

Listed on NVIDIA's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Santa Clara, CA
- Salary: 152000 – 287500 USD per year

## Summary

NVIDIA is seeking a senior engineer to build AI agent systems that automate simulation, evaluation, and performance analysis for their inference and hardware platforms. The role combines AI expertise with performance engineering to help optimize emerging workloads across GPU and future LPU systems.

_Our summary, not NVIDIA's wording._

## Skills named

Benchmarking, Monte Carlo Simulation, Python

## Required

- Experience building AI agents or AI-backed engineering systems
- Familiarity with modern model architectures and AI inference workloads
- Experience evaluating AI models or agents and analyzing performance
- Experience with simulation, profiling, benchmarking, or performance modeling
- Strong Python skills and ability to build reliable engineering tools
- MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of software development experience
- 2 years building AI agents or AI-backed engineering systems

## Nice to have

- Experience with coding agents like Codex or Claude Code for automating technical workflows
- Knowledge of GPU or accelerator architecture, distributed inference, or high-performance computing
- Open-source projects demonstrating agentic AI, evaluation, or performance-engineering applications
- Rigorous analytical approach to experimentation, data collection, and validation

Apply on NVIDIA's site: https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NVIDIAExternalCareerSite/job/US-CA-Santa-Clara/Senior-Agentic-AI-Engineer--Simulation-and-Evaluation_JR2023184