Principal Engineer, GenAI for Media and Gaming

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Santa Clara, CA
In-Office
272K-426K
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Computer Vision • Hardware • Robotics • Metaverse
The Role
NVIDIA seeks a Principal Engineer in conversational AI for game development, focusing on language models and AI agent technologies. Handle product challenges, create conversational pipelines, optimize performance, and collaborate across teams to innovate and productize AI solutions.
Summary Generated by Built In

NVIDIA is seeking an outstanding engineer in conversational AI to join our AI for Games team. We are developing next-generation gaming solutions enriched with AI Assistants, Actors, and Agents, and we are looking for outstanding engineers to help us achieve this vision. If you are passionate about generative AI, language models, conversational pipelines, and their applications in games, this is the opportunity for you. Collaborating with other teams across the company, you will productize promising research and develop new features through your own work.

What you'll be doing:

  • 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 your ideas and to 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.

What we need to see:

  • 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 such as GDC, ICCV/ECCV, SIGGRAPH, or other research artifacts such as software projects or significant product development.

AI-powered machines can learn, reason, and interact with people, thanks to GPU deep learning. We offer competitive salaries and great benefits as a top tech employer with leading talent.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 272,000 USD - 425,500 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 25, 2025.NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse 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.

Top Skills

C
C++
Cuda
Python
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The Company
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
21,960 Employees
Year Founded: 1993

What We Do

NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, NVIDIA is increasingly known as “the AI computing company.”

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