Senior Applied Research Engineer - Accelerator Programming Model and Compiler

About the role

We are seeking a Sr Applied Research Engineer, Accelerator Programming Model and Compiler to work on the next generation programming model for NVIDIA’s Programmable Vision Accelerator (PVA) built for developers and AI coding agents. The PVA is a power-efficient, deterministic VLIW/SIMD processor used across NVIDIA DRIVE, Jetson, and IGX platforms.

What you'll do

• Work on the next-generation PVA programming model for developers and AI coding agents, making it easier to build optimized algorithms for PVA
• Enable AI agent–driven PVA development by abstracting hardware-specific details into agent accessible, declarative interfaces, supported by improvements to compile time
• Help define the architecture, and feature set of the PVA SDK, runtime APIs and programming model
• Define benchmarks and evaluations for agent-generated PVA code and use them to improve the compiler optimizations and diagnostics
• Develop and actively improve the LLVM-based VPU compiler backend targeting VLIW/SIMD architecture

What you need

• 10–18 yrs of experience
• Research
• Data structures
• C++
• Linux
• PhD or B.Tech or B.E.

Good to have

• Computer vision