Senior Applied Agent Research Engineer

Join NVIDIA as a Senior Applied Agent Research Engineer – a unique role within the KGMON (Kaggle Grandmasters of NVIDIA) team, focused on AI agents and practical machine‑learning solutions across a variety of high‑impact, real‑world problems.

• Drive competitive ML excellence by competing in top‑tier machine‑learning competitions (Kaggle, NeurIPS, CVPR, etc.) and sharing winning techniques with NVIDIA solution and product teams.
• Engage with the ML community through Kaggle notebooks, technical blogs, conference presentations, and open‑source contributions, representing 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, applying state‑of‑the‑art techniques using NVIDIA technology.

• 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 Grand master or higher, high rankings in significant ML contests, or comparable proven expertise in competitive data science).
• Excellent communication skills: clear technical documentation, papers, and blog posts; active engagement in ML communities; and comfort presenting to diverse audiences.
• Self‑directed and collaborative: ability to work autonomously on ambiguous problems while partnering with cross‑functional teams to deliver results.

• Kaggle Grand master 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, Tensor
  
  RT‑LLM, RAPIDS).

• Mid‑Senior level

• Full‑time

• Computer Hardware Manufacturing, Software Development, and Computers and Electronics Manufacturing

Base salary range:
184,000 USD–287,500 USD
. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted until December 22, 2025.

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