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NVIDIA

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Open Models

NVIDIA

. Drive AI solutions from discovery and scoping through post-training, harness optimization, and deployment .

Posted 11/5/2026full-timeRemote • California • United StatesSenior💰 $184,000 - $356,500 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in AI solutions development, particularly in post-training strategies, model optimization, and deployment. Proficient in leading technical engagements and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive successful AI implementations.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Post-Training StrategiesLoRA/PEFT ExpertiseDeep Learning FundamentalsPyTorch ProficiencySynthetic Data Pipelines

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Hard Skills
Machine LearningReinforcement LearningModel ArchitectureHyperparameter TuningInference OptimizationDataset CurationEvaluation SetsMulti-GPU SystemsLinuxPython
Soft Skills
Organizational SkillsComplex Decision-MakingCommunication SkillsProblem-Solving SkillsIntellectual Curiosity
Tools & Technologies
Hugging Face TransformersNemotronCosmosNVIDIA Software Stack
Industry Keywords
Applied AISolutions ArchitectureFDELarge-Scale Distributed TrainingAgentic Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
LinuxNode.jsPythonPyTorch

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Drive AI solutions from discovery and scoping through post-training, harness optimization, and deployment
  • Develop post-training and harness strategies with appropriate methods, data, evaluation, and success criteria
  • Design evaluations and build synthetic data pipelines
  • Perform post-training with LoRA and other parameter-efficient methods, supervised fine-tuning, and synchronous and asynchronous reinforcement learning
  • Make architecture and hyperparameter choices to improve results
  • Tune prompting, tool use, orchestration, and context management for domain-specific performance
  • Optimize inference for cost-effective production operation
  • Lead technical engagements by scoping work, shaping statements of work, and driving delivery with partner engineering teams and joint customers
  • Build reusable recipes, reference pipelines, and playbooks for partners
  • Connect NVIDIA model research to partner and customer use cases
  • Work with product, research, and engineering teams to bring field insights into Nemotron, Cosmos, and NVIDIA's software stack

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years in ML or software engineering, applied AI, FDE, or solutions architecture
  • 3+ years of hands-on LLM post-training and taking models to production
  • Solid fundamentals in deep learning and machine learning
  • Deep expertise in LoRA/PEFT, SFT, and reinforcement learning, including synchronous and asynchronous approaches
  • Strong grasp of model architectures and hyperparameters
  • Understanding of large-scale distributed training and inference performance optimization
  • Ability to configure and tune workloads for memory efficiency, throughput, latency, and scaling across multi-GPU and multi-node systems
  • Experience with synthetic data pipelines, dataset curation and filtering, and evaluation sets
  • Experience with harness engineering for LLM and agentic systems
  • Proficiency in PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, Python, and Linux
  • Proven ability to scope engagements, shape statements of work, and lead delivery with partners and customers
  • Excellent organizational skills and ability to drive complex decisions across teams and companies
  • Ability to communicate complex technical ideas to engineers and C-level executives
  • Strong problem-solving skills, intellectual curiosity, and commitment to partner and customer success

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Equity
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