Applied Agentic AI Lead, Partner Co-Design at NVIDIA Corporation
Santa Clara, CA
$224,000–$431,250from the description
Jul 13, 2026
Santa Clara, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior technical role embedded with a small set of enterprise software partners, focused on designing and building production agentic and generative AI systems alongside their platform architects. Day-to-day work spans multi-agent pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation, inference optimization, and fine-tuning, using a modern LLM toolchain. The role also feeds real-world deployment insights back into internal product and engineering teams, making it a fit for someone equally comfortable writing code and advising senior technical leaders.
Senior level · 12+ years · Remote · Master's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 370 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 110–550
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role spans two posted levels (Level 5 and Level 6) with overlapping salary bands: $224,000–$356,500 (L5) and $272,000–$431,250 (L6). The pay band fields reflect the full combined range ($224,000–$431,250).
Degree requirement: the JD states 'Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.' Because equivalent experience is explicitly accepted, this would normally map to None — however the phrasing 'Masters or PhD … or equivalent' is listed under the hard-requirements block. Treated as Masters (minimum named degree) since the 'or equivalent experience' escape clause is present but the posting clearly signals a graduate-level baseline.
SOC classification is Medium-confidence. The role is primarily about co-designing and shipping production agentic AI software (15-1252 Software Developers), but it carries a strong partner-facing solutions/technical-account dimension. 15-2051 Data Scientists is the runner-up given the deep ML/GenAI modeling scope.
The 'Ways to Stand Out' section is treated as preferred/nice-to-have throughout; specific tools named there (MCP/A2A, PEFT, RL) are marked preferred accordingly.
NeMo, NIM, Dynamo, and TensorRT-LLM appear in both the required stack description and the 'Ways to Stand Out' section. The JD notes 'Direct experience with every tool is not required but foundational breadth is desired,' so individual NVIDIA-stack tools beyond NeMo (called out explicitly in the Python/stack fluency requirement) are marked preferred.
MLOps/LLMOps, Kubernetes, Docker, and Security/Compliance/Governance are listed under the hard-requirements block as 'strong grasp of enterprise deployment realities'; MLOps and Kubernetes/Docker are captured as required skills. Security/Compliance/Governance is a domain concept rather than a named tool and is omitted per extraction rules.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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