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Principal Engineer, Local AI - Agents and Systems

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$272k2026-07-27 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead the development of autonomous AI agent frameworks and local runtimes for Windows and NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs to enable secure, always-on AI workflows on consumer PCs.

Role type

Principal Engineer, Local AI - Agents and Systems

Builds

Open-source AI agent frameworks (Nemoclaw, OpenClaw) and local inference runtimes for desktop AI operating systems

Domain

Consumer hardware, Windows OS internals, Local LLM inference, GPU-accelerated computing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Windows OS internals, Process isolation, Sandboxing technologies, System-level security architecture, LLM inference pipelines, GPU-accelerated computing, AI orchestration frameworks, C++, Python, Virtualization, Containerization

Preferred skills

Mentoring engineers, Establishing deployment guidelines

Technologies

Nemoclaw, OpenClaw, Nemotron, Ollama, Llama.cpp, vLLM, CUDA, TensorRT, LangChain, Hermes

Responsibilities

Build technical roadmap for always-on AI assistants on GeForce RTX PCs, Optimize agent runtimes for Windows with policy-based privacy/security, Partner with AI research and driver teams, Mentor engineers and write production-ready code

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship