Senior Solutions Architect, Higher Education and Research

Salary: £63,000 - 103,000 per year

Requirements

• A graduate degree from a leading university in a STEM-related discipline
• 5+ years of hands-on experience running the large language model lifecycle across multi-node systems: training, fine-tuning, inference, serving, and/or agentic workflows
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to build relationships with academic and research stakeholders, and to communicate complex ideas clearly to both expert and non-expert audiences
• Action oriented, analytical, self-motivated, and a passionate learner, with excellent organization skills to work in a heavily multi-tasked environment
• Fluent in English, both oral and written, and comfortable working in Python

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with leading research labs, researchers, and university faculty as a trusted technical advisor
• Develop a keen understanding of scientific goals and drive joint research projects at supercomputing scale
• Identify and accelerate high-impact workloads by integrating our frameworks, libraries, and core software stack into research projects
• Help researchers amplify their impact through publications, conference presentations, and technical content
• Advocate for accelerated computing and deep learning, and deliver hands-on trainings, workshops, lectures, and demonstrations across our platforms
• Mentor power users to become our champions
• Track emerging research trends and turn gaps between researcher needs and our offerings into prototypical solutions and direct feedback to Engineering
• Maintain deep expertise in your domain while staying versatile across our full platform: GPUs, CPUs, networking, and software

Technologies

• AI
• Architect
• Fine-tuning
• NodeJS
• CUDA
• LLM
• Python

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We are NVIDIA, redefining computer graphics and accelerated computing for three decades, and today we are tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. We offer a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is encouraged to do their best work and make a lasting impact on the world. This Solutions Architect role is based in the Greater London area, working with academia and research partners, with location options in the UK including remote, Cambridge, and Reading. The role is full time and involves around 30% travel, supported by extensive use of conferencing tools.

last updated 36 week of 2026