[Remote] Senior Computer Vision, VLM Performance Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NVIDIA is a world-leader in artificial intelligence and computer vision. They are seeking an engineering expert to help productize and optimize the latest Vision Language Models (VLMs) and their pipelines, focusing on improving inference pipelines and model efficiency. Responsibilities • Develop, profile and optimize inference pipelines for VLMs and other AI CV models: improve throughput and latency, data loading, pre- and post-processing. • Improve the efficiency of VLM models themselves: kernel optimization in CUDA • Upstream improvements to SDKs and libraries across NVIDIA and beyond to deliver accelerated computer vision at scale. • Promote high-performance AI computer vision across NVIDIA teams and functions (Engineering, Product Management, Marketing, and more). Skills • Master's of Science in Computer Science or Electrical engineering or equivalent experience. • 8 years practical experience or equivalent • Expertise in AI computer vision (VLMs, Vision Transformers, Diffusion models). Proven track record using its software ecosystem (PyTorch, HuggingFace, vLLM) to develop and release production-grade software. • Excellent software engineering fundamentals (source control, CI/CD, testing/validation, packaging, containerization, release). • Proficiency with Python, C++ and CUDA (kernel optimization) • Experience developing cloud applications (REST APIs, gRPC). • Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication to present performance challenges, tradeoffs, and architectural alternatives. • Curiosity and drive to learn new technologies and partner across teams and functions. • Expertise in classical, non-ML computer vision • Strong fundamentals with system-level performance: multi-threaded, multi-process and distributed software development. • Grounding in mathematical fundamentals such as linear algebra, numerical methods, statistics, and exploratory data analysis. • History of creativity and innovation around performance in multiple problem domains. Benefits • Equity • Benefits Company Overview • NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI. It was founded in 1993, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship • NVIDIA has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1418 in 2025, 1356 in 2024, 976 in 2023, 835 in 2022, 601 in 2021, 529 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply tot his job