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# Applied AI Engineer - VLSI Design at NVIDIA

Department: Engineer, CAD

Compensation

$136,000 – $264,500/yr

**Setup**
: On-site

**Location**
: California

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: senior

**Posted**
: Aug 17, 2026

## Description

NVIDIA is hiring a Software Engineer for its custom RAM design team to develop and deploy AI agents and LLM-powered solutions for VLSI design. The role involves building infrastructure for engineering assistants and multimodal dialogue systems, integrating fine-tuned models with CAD flows, maintaining retrieval-based design databases, and collaborating with distributed circuit-design and EDA teams. Candidates need a master's or PhD in a relevant field, at least five years of related industry experience, Python proficiency, and experience with large language models, multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, and vector databases. The posting is marked hybrid and lists base salary ranges of 136,000–218,500 USD for Level 3 and 168,000–264,500 USD for Level 4.

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