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Senior Research Engineer - Enterprise Products

NVIDIA

Company websitenvidia.com (NVIDIA, opens in new tab)

Base salary $192,000  to $356,500

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Washington +1 more

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  • Washington
  • Santa Clara, CA

About this job

We are now looking for a Senior Research Engineer passionate about Generative AI inference. Are you excited to change the way people infuse AI into products and services? NVIDIA is at the forefront of generative AI models, from language to images. NVIDIA provides building blocks to democratize AI and make generative AI easy to develop, integrate, and deploy. Our team is dedicated to developing optimized inferencing technologies to support our growing generative AI needs. We contribute to all steps of the machine learning lifecycle: from conceptualization, to applied research, engineering for optimized inference, and deployment. Collaborate with research teams, engineers, and open-source community.

What you will be doing:

  • Design and evaluate routing policies for LLM traffic to best use mixture of model systems.

  • Build and run agentic benchmarks (e.g., Terminal-Bench ) to measure algorithm quality, and turn results into calibration data and routing profiles

  • Ship to an open-source repo: design docs, code review, docs, and community contributions

  • Collaborating with engineering teams across all of NVIDIA to ensure our software integrates seamlessly up and down the NVIDIA accelerated serving stack.

What we need to see:

  • Bachelor's of Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

  • 8+ years of industry experience in Deep Learning frameworks (PyTorch or TensorFlow).

  • Experience designing or running LLM evaluations/benchmarks — ideally agentic ones — and drawing statistically sound conclusions from them

  • Understanding of modern techniques in Machine Learning, Deep Neural Networks, Natural Language Processing, or Speech Recognition.

  • Empirical research mindset: forming hypotheses about new algorithms, running calibrations, iterating on results

  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, along with the ability to work in a dynamic and distributed team. A history of mentoring junior engineers and interns is a huge plus.

  • A desire to constantly grow and learn new things.

  • Strong computer science fundamentals - algorithms and data structures, computational complexity, parallel and distributed computing, system software.

Ways to stand out from a crowd:

  • Experience architecting or developing large-scale distributed systems for deep learning.

  • Agentic benchmark creation and publications.

  • Knowledge of CPU and/or GPU architecture.

  • GPU programming (CUDA).

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary ranges for this position are:
192,000 USD – 304,750 USD for Level 4; and 224,000 USD – 356,500 USD for Level 5.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 3, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Source: NVIDIA on Workday · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($192,000) is above 86% of the 355 Data & ML roles in Washington listed on this site; 5 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $143,700; the middle half runs from $136,000 to $169,050.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 8, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live NVIDIA roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live NVIDIA roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Senior Research Engineer - Enterprise Products (this listing)$192,000 - $356,500
Manager, Field Application Engineering - OEM Support$192,000 - $304,750
Senior Quantum Applied Research Scientist, Physics Modeling$192,000 - $304,750
Principal Applied Quantum Research Scientist$192,000 - $304,750
Senior Research Scientist, Security and Privacy$192,000 - $356,500
Senior Research Scientist, EDA and AI$192,000 - $356,500
Senior Robotics Research Scientist$192,000 - $356,500

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All NVIDIA roles · How to read the bar

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2026-10-30
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Location as the employer wrote it: US, WA, Remote • US, CA, Santa Clara • US, Remote (Levels 4-5 combined)

192,000 USD – 304,750 USD for Level 4; and 224,000 USD – 356,500 USD for Level 5.

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