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Solutions Architect, LLM Model Builder

Posted Aug 5, 2026

Role at a glance

Salary
$152K – $241.5K/yr
Location
Santa Clara, California, United States
Work arrangement
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Experience
5+ years of relevant experience working with LLMs, VLMs, and large-scale inference systems
Education
MSc, PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineer, ML Engineer, or related fields (or equivalent experience).

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Role Summary

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The Solutions Architect, Foundation Models role supports partner enablement for reasoning models, multimodal models, and production inference. The Partner Solutions Architecture team helps partners translate customer requirements into architectures, benchmark recipes, cluster test plans, compute sizing, and production-readiness approaches across NVIDIA's accelerated computing platform.

What You'll Do

  • Serve as the lead technical advisor for partners delivering reasoning, multimodal, fine-tuning, and model-serving solutions.
  • Guide partners on fine-tuning, distillation, quantization, compression, benchmarking, and evaluation approaches for customer workloads.
  • 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...
  • 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 NVIDIA tooling.

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Qualifications

MSc or PhD in a stated or related field, or equivalent experience; 5+ years working with LLMs, VLMs, and large-scale inference systems; expertise in fine-tuning, benchmarking, evaluation, optimization, and production deployment; understanding of foundation models, reasoning models, reinforcement learning, and synthetic data workflows; strong Python skills and hands-on experience with PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow; familiarity with listed inference and optimization stacks; strong communication and presentation skills.

Required

  • MSc or 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
  • Hands-on expertise in fine-tuning, benchmarking, evaluation, optimization, and production deployment
  • 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
  • Hands-on experience with PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow
  • Familiarity with Nemotron, NeMo, Dynamo, TensorRT-LLM, Triton, vLLM, and similar inference and optimization stacks

Preferred

  • 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

Original job description

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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 the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range 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 April 11, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse 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.

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About the company

NVIDIA

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NVIDIA is a leading technology company renowned for its graphics processing units (GPUs) and innovative computing solutions that enhance visual experiences across multiple platforms, including gaming, scientific research, and artificial intelligence. Founded in 1993, the company has expanded its offerings to include powerful AI frameworks and deep learning platforms, making significant contributions to industries such as gaming, data centers, automotive, and healthcare. NVIDIA's commitment to pushing the boundaries of visual computing continues to drive advancements in both hardware and software, positioning the company at the forefront of emerging technologies and digital transformation.