Senior LLM Agents Architect

We don't just build the hardware and software that powers the AI revolution - we are building the AI that designs the next generation of both. Our team sits at the intersection of inference software and GPU architecture, creating autonomous LLM-driven systems that reason about hardware, write high-performance CUDA, and automate the complex loops of architectural simulation, analysis, and optimization.

We are looking for a senior LLM Agents Architect to work hands-on with hardware architects, verification engineers, GPU performance experts, and software developers to build end-to-end agent flows that drive significant improvements in kernel optimization, architectural exploration, and developer efficiency.

What you'll be doing:

• Design and build agentic AI systems that generate, analyze, and optimize GPU compute kernels - targeting speed-of-light performance on NVIDIA hardware.

• Collaborate with GPU architects and performance engineers to encode domain expertise - memory hierarchy trade-offs, occupancy tuning, instruction-level reasoning - into agent workflows that rival hand-tuned optimization.

• Build automated performance forensics agents capable of ingesting large-scale simulation traces and Nsight profiler data to identify bottlenecks and propose architectural or software mitigations.

• Partner with HW architects to develop agentic flows for GPU architectural studies - enabling rapid what-if analysis across micro-architecture configurations such as cache sizing, memory controller design, and compute unit scaling.

• Explore agentic approaches to HW/SW co-design challenges, including replacing or augmenting graph-compiler functionality (e.g., TorchInductor) with LLM-driven optimization and code-generation pipelines.

• Rapidly prototype and thoughtfully productize; integrate with internal services, utilize GPU capabilities, remove bottlenecks, and deliver fitting solutions.

• Set up evaluation backbone using offline golden sets and online telemetry for confident iterations, cost control, and safe improvements.

• Mentor and improve teams through insights in agent orchestration, prompting, RAG, observability, crafting documentation and playbooks for NVIDIA's teams.

What we need to see:

• 8+ years in applied ML/AI or large-scale systems, with 2+ years crafting agentic or LLM-powered applications in production environments.

• B.Sc in Computer Science / Electrical Engineering.

• Solid grounding in computer architecture: memory hierarchies, parallelism models, pipelining, and cache behavior. Specific familiarity with NVIDIA GPU architecture - streaming multiprocessors, warp scheduling, shared/global memory model, and occupancy reasoning - is essential.

• Hands-on CUDA programming experience: writing, profiling, and optimizing GPU kernels - not just calling into CUDA-accelerated libraries. Comfortable with tools such as Nsight Compute, Nsight Systems, or equivalent profiling workflows.

• Proven ownership of at least one end-to-end agentic system or LLM application: requirements, architecture, implementation, evaluation, and incremental hardening in production - not just experience with off-the-shelf frameworks.

• Strong software engineering skills in Python and one systems language (C++ preferred).

• Proficient in tool use, RAG pipelines, and model adaptation techniques for building agentic systems.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with HW/SW domain experts and translate their heuristics into deterministic tools, constraints, and evaluation metrics.

• Excellence in communication and facilitation: aligning diverse collaborators, documenting decisions/assumptions,and influencing without authority.

• Track record of building observability for AI systems: dataset/version management, offline test suites, online telemetry, guardrails/safety checks, and rollback plans.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Familiarity with the PyTorch compilation and lowering stack (torch.compile, TorchDynamo, TorchInductor, Triton, down to PTX), and with GPU graph compilers, kernel fusion strategies, or auto-tuning frameworks.

• Background in performance engineering for HPC or GPU-accelerated workloads, including experience with performance modeling or hardware simulators.

• Familiarity with distributed processing, multi-GPU workloads, and networking (e.g., NVLink, InfiniBand).

• Familiarity with frontier agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) - understanding their underlying architecture: tool orchestration, context management, and autonomous task execution patterns.

• Hands-on experience building a domain-specific coding agent - whether on top of frontier agentic harnesses (e.g., Claude Code, Codex SDK) or lower-level agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain/LangGraph deep agents, CrewAI). Comfortable with the design choices that make a coding agent useful in practice: task scoping, tool and context curation, evaluation, and failure recovery

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