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Senior Applied Agent Research Engineer

NVIDIA, Granite Heights, Wisconsin, United States

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Senior Applied Agent Research Engineer

– NVIDIA

NVIDIA's KGMON (Kaggle Grandmasters of NVIDIA) team is seeking a Senior Applied Research Scientist passionate about AI agents with proven skills in applying AI research to practical problems. Our team of world‑class competitive machine learning practitioners tackles NVIDIA's most challenging applied AI problems.

What You'll Be Doing

Drive competitive ML excellence by competing in top-tier machine learning competitions (Kaggle, NeurIPS, CVPR challenges). Share winning techniques with NVIDIA solution and product teams and internal guidelines.

Engage with the ML community by sharing insights through Kaggle notebooks, technical blogs, social media, conference presentations, and open‑source contributions. Represent NVIDIA as a leader in competitive ML and agentic AI.

Collaborate with product, research, and engineering teams to develop brand new solutions.

Work with external customers on real‑world problems by applying state‑of‑the‑art techniques using NVIDIA technology.

What We Need To See

MS or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or equivalent experience with 5+ years of applied ML/AI work.

Demonstrated success in competitive ML: Kaggle competition master or higher, high rankings in significant ML contests, or comparable proven expertise in competitive data science.

Excellent communication skills: ability to write clear technical documentation, papers, and blog posts; active engagement in ML communities; and comfort presenting to diverse audiences.

Self‑directed and collaborative: proven ability to work autonomously on ambiguous problems while effectively partnering with cross‑functional teams to deliver results.

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

Kaggle Grandmaster status with gold medals in NLP/LLM contests, or several top‑10 placements in prominent ML competitions.

Published research in top‑tier venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP) on topics related to LLMs, agents, or ML algorithms.

Experience with NVIDIA AI platforms: NeMo, NIMs, TensorRT‑LLM, RAPIDS.

Compensation: base salary range 184,000 USD – 287,500 USD. Eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications accepted at least until December 22, 2025.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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.

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level.

Employment type: Full‑time.

Job function: Computer Hardware Manufacturing, Software Development, and Computers and Electronics Manufacturing.

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