An Nvidia exec said AI-generated résumés may be favored by AI recruiters because ‘AI likes to use AI’

An Nvidia exec said AI-generated résumés may be favored by AI recruiters because ‘AI likes to use AI’

By Katherine Li
Publication Date: 2026-05-19 09:15:00

Nvidia’s Chief Software Architect said job seekers could benefit from using the same AI model that recruiters use.

Speaking at the Sohn Investment Conference 2026, Jonathan Ross, the AI hardware architect who previously helped invent Google’s TPU chip, said that “AI likes to use AI” and pointed to emerging research that AI hiring systems may favor résumés generated by their own underlying models.

“Someone did a study and showed that résumés generated from one LLM are preferred by that same LLM over the résumés from the other,” Ross told John Yetimoglu, the CIO of Infinitum.

“The recruiters are now using LLM to determine who to interview, but you got to figure out which LLM the recruiter’s using,” he added.

Ross said that applicants may need multiple AI-tailored résumés to maximize their chances of getting through automated screening systems.

“So, you should build one résumé with Claude…