AI Software Engineer, Lightspeed Studios
Company: Nvidia
Location: US, CA, Remote (Remote)
Salary: $224k - $356.5k per year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-09-28
About this role
At NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios we are passionate about pushing the limits of technology, and we're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team! We help shape the future of games by combining the best AI and graphics technology NVIDIA has to offer with the most advanced games and tools in the industry. In this role, you'll help take new, unannounced projects powered by state-of-the-art AI models from research to real-time, interactive gaming experiences. If you're passionate about bringing generative AI to games, we'd love to hear from you!
Some existing projects we've been working on:
- RTX Remix is an open-source modding platform for remastering classic games with full path tracing, DLSS 4.5, and generative AI tools that turn low-resolution textures into physically based materials. Newer features like RTX Remix Logic and Advanced Particle VFX let modders add dynamic, gameplay-driven effects: [https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/rtx-remix/](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/rtx-remix/)
- Zorah is our neural rendering tech demo for the GeForce RTX 50 Series launch at CES 2025. It features massive, fully path-traced scenes in Unreal Engine 5, powered by RTX Neural Shaders, RTX Mega Geometry, and DLSS 4: [https://developer.nvidia.com/rtx-kit](https://developer.nvidia.com/rtx-kit)
- Project R2X is a vision-enabled AI avatar for RTX PCs that can see the screen, assist with apps, and summarize documents. It is rendered with RTX Neural Faces and animated by a diffusion-based Audio2Face-3D model: [https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-launches-ai-foundation-models-for-rtx-ai-pcs](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-launches-ai-foundation-models-for-rtx-ai-pcs)
- NVIDIA AI for Gaming brings conversational, autonomous game characters to life with small on-device models for speech, intelligence, and animation. It powers AI teammates in PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, AI citizens in inZOI, and an in-game advisor in Total War: PHARAOH: [https://developer.nvidi...