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Solutions Architect, LLM Model Builder

NVIDIA is hiring a Solutions Architect, LLM Model Builder in Santa Clara, United States. It pays $152k-$242k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on NVIDIA.

Level's read on this job

  • On Level's scale, this solutions architect role is Builds AI ●●●●: the job is building AI systems.
  • Tools and skills the posting cites include vLLM, PyTorch and TensorFlow.
  • Level classifies it as a senior role.
  • Level lists 2,600+ other open roles at NVIDIA.

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NVIDIA is seeking an outstanding Solutions Architect, Foundation Models to join our growing team focused on partner enablement for reasoning models, multimodal models, and production inference! In this role, you will act as both a strategic technical expert and a hands-on advisor, helping partners build, benchmark, fine-tune, optimize, and deploy foundation model solutions for customer workloads.

The Partner Solutions Architecture team acts as a trusted advisor to the ecosystem. We enable partners to translate customer requirements into architectures, benchmark recipes, cluster test plans, compute sizing, and production readiness—accelerating time to value through the full-stack accelerated computing platform.

What you'll be doing:

  • Serve as the lead technical advisor for partners delivering reasoning, multimodal, fine-tuning, and model-serving solutions.

  • Guide partners to the right approach for customer workloads across fine-tuning, distillation, quantization, compression, benchmarking, and evaluation.

  • Define benchmark plans, synthetic data and evaluation workflows, and repeatable validation recipes.

  • Advise on compute planning, including cluster sizing, GPU and network selection, storage, memory tradeoffs, latency and throughput targets, and production-readiness testing.

  • Guide inference architecture across prefill and decode tradeoffs, batching, routing, disaggregated inference, and serving efficiency.

  • Develop reference architectures, playbooks, benchmark recipes, TCO calculators, and sizing models across CUDA, NeMo, Nemotron, Dynamo, TensorRT-LLM, Triton, NIMs, and related tooling.

  • Support pre- and post-sales engagements by translating complex model and infrastructure topics for partner and customer teams.

What we need to see:

  • MSc, PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineer, ML Engineer, or related fields (or equivalent experience).

  • 5+ years of relevant experience working with LLMs, VLMs, and large-scale inference systems, with hands-on expertise in fine-tuning, benchmarking, evaluation, optimization, and production deployment as a Research Engineer, Deep Learning Engineer, or equivalent.

  • Strong understanding of foundation models across data preparation, fine-tuning, post-training, evaluation, and inference.

  • Familiarity with reasoning models, reinforcement learning, and synthetic data generation and evaluation workflows.

  • Strong programming skills in Python and hands-on experience with PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.

  • Familiarity with Nemotron, NeMo, Dynamo, TensorRT-LLM, Triton, vLLM, and similar inference and optimization stacks.

  • Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to advise both technical teams and executives.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • Experience helping partners or customers deploy large-scale AI systems in production.

  • Built benchmark suites, fine-tuning recipes, sizing calculators, or TCO models for AI workloads.

  • Strong knowledge of GPU infrastructure, including NVLink, InfiniBand, MPI, NCCL, or adjacent cluster technologies.

  • Active OSS contributions in model tooling, inference, evaluation, or performance optimization.

  • Comfortable moving between deep technical reviews, architecture guidance, benchmarking, and partner enablement.

Widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers, NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. As you plan your future, see what we can offer to you and your family www.nvidiabenefits.com/ 

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary range for this position is 152,000 USD – 241,500 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 3, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, 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.

How we rate this

Solutions Architect, LLM Model Builder at NVIDIA rates 96 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Questions you could be asked

  1. Walk me through fine-tuning a model: what data did you use, and how did you check the result?
  2. Walk me through how you've used vLLM in your day-to-day work.
  3. What are the limits of PyTorch that you've run into, and how did you work around them?
  4. What's a project where you used TensorFlow hands-on?
  5. Walk me through how you've used JAX in your day-to-day work.

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  • List these exact terms on your resume: Fine-tuning, vLLM, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
  • Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
  • Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.

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