Principal High-Performance LLM Training Engineer
Nvidia
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Santa Clara, CA · $272k–$431k a year · Posted November 5, 2026
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About the job
NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Engineer to drive the performance of large-scale AI training and post-training workloads across NVIDIA’s full... ...engineering. You will analyze and optimize frontier-scale LLM workloads running on thousands of GPUs, drive improvements across...