Principal Engineer, GenAI for Media and Gaming

Details

NVIDIA is seeking an outstanding engineer in conversational AI to join the AI for Games team. The team develops next-generation gaming solutions enriched with AI Assistants, Actors, and Agents. You will productize promising research, develop new features, and collaborate with internal and external teams to bring AI-driven interactive experiences to games and other interactive applications.

Responsibilities

• Use AI to solve product challenges in gaming and other interactive experiences.
• Build upon the latest research to create world-class conversational pipelines for AI assistants and agents.
• Improve and fine-tune language models and retrieval-augmented generation solutions for accuracy and performance.
• Build prototypes to demonstrate real-life applications of ideas and accelerate productization.
• Collaborate with NVIDIA's internal and external teams, including AI/DL researchers, hardware architects, and software engineers.
• Participate in technology transfers to and from teams across NVIDIA.

Requirements

• PhD or Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Machine Learning, AI, or related fields; or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of work experience with last 5+ years focused on language models, AI assistants, and agents.
• Proficiency in C, C++, and Python, with the ability to write high-performance production code.
• Experience with GPU programming, CUDA, and system optimizations is a significant plus.
• A track record of proven research excellence, demonstrated through presentations, demos, or publications at leading venues (e.g., GDC, ICCV/ECCV, SIGGRAPH) or other research artifacts such as software projects or significant product development.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary (range provided below), eligibility for equity, and benefits.
• NVIDIA emphasizes collaboration with top researchers and engineers and offers opportunities to productize research into real products.

Compensation & Other Details

• Base salary range: 272,000 USD - 425,500 USD (final base salary determined based on location, experience, and internal pay parity).
• Eligible for equity and benefits (see NVIDIA benefits page).
• Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 25, 2025.

Equal Opportunity

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and is an equal opportunity employer. They do not discriminate 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.