Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Open Models
Core
Drive technical engagement with partners and customers to turn NVIDIA's open models (Nemotron, Cosmos) into production-ready AI through post-training and harness optimization.
Role type
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Applied AI Research & Solutions)
Builds
Production-ready domain-specific AI solutions, reusable recipes, reference pipelines, and playbooks for partners.
Domain
Artificial Intelligence / Large Language Models / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
LLM post-training (LoRA/PEFT, SFT, RL), distributed training optimization, harness engineering (prompting, orchestration), synthetic data pipelines, PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, Python, Linux, multi-GPU/multi-node system tuning
Preferred skills
Experience with Nemotron/Cosmos, serverless/self-managed post-training platforms (Tinker APIs), NeMo, Megatron, multimodal/world-foundation-model post-training, SLURM, Kubernetes
Responsibilities
Scope engagements and shape Statements of Work (SOW), lead delivery with partner engineering teams, build synthetic data pipelines, tune model architectures and hyperparameters, optimize inference for cost-effectiveness, co-lead joint customer engagements
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
