Senior Performance Engineer

Requirements:

• BS or higher degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field, with 12+ years of experience
• Strong programming skills in C++ and Python, with the ability to build reliable analysis and automation workflows
• Solid foundation in operating systems, computer architecture, and distributed systems
• Experience with performance engineering, benchmarking, profiling, and optimization of complex software or systems
• Ability to communicate technical findings, prioritize high-impact work, and build alignment across teams

Nice to haves:

• Experience analyzing large-scale AI clusters or distributed training and inference workloads
• Experience with CUDA, GPU computing systems, and GPU performance analysis
• Hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX/XLA
• Deep understanding of system-level performance analysis, workload characterization, and optimization

What you'll be doing:

• Analyze end-to-end performance of large-scale AI workloads across compute, network, storage, and software stacks.
• Design and execute rigorous performance studies to establish baselines, diagnose regressions, and quantify bottlenecks.
• Define performance and efficiency evaluation methodologies, benchmarks, and success metrics for AI workloads.
• Use profiling, observability, and data analysis to turn performance measurements into actionable optimization plans.
• Partner with deep learning engineers, platform teams, and GPU architects to validate and deliver performance improvements.
• Communicate performance findings, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to influence system and software design decisions.

Perks and benefits:

• NVIDIA leads the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing, and Visualization.
• The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services.
• Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions, from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars.
• NVIDIA is looking for exceptional people like you to help us accelerate the next wave of artificial intelligence.