AI Compute Performance Engineer

020 Cisco Systems, Inc.; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer to analyze and improve AI compute performance across hardware, system software, and application workloads. You will run AI training, inference, and HPC workloads on GPU-accelerated systems and collaborate with hardware and software teams to resolve performance issues.

The role requires 5+ years of related experience, strong Linux debugging skills, and proficiency in Python, C/C++, Go, or Bash. CUDA/NCCL experience is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher with related experience.
• Experience debugging, testing, or tuning Linux-based systems.
• Experience running or evaluating AI, machine learning, or HPC workloads.

Responsibilities

• Run and analyze AI training, inference, and HPC workloads on GPU-accelerated systems.
• Investigate compute, memory, PCIe, storage, and workload scaling issues.
• Use telemetry, logs, traces, and profiling tools to identify performance bottlenecks.
• Develop automation for performance testing, regression detection, and failure triage.
• Work with hardware and software teams to resolve system and workload performance issues.
• Document findings, test procedures, and performance results.

Skills

Python

C++

Go

Bash

Linux

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

PhD

Tools

Nsight

DCGM

rocprofiler

CUDA

NCCL

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer to analyze and improve AI compute performance across hardware, system software, and application workloads. You will run AI training, inference, and HPC workloads on GPU-accelerated systems and collaborate with hardware and software teams to resolve performance issues.

The role requires 5+ years of related experience, strong Linux debugging skills, and proficiency in Python, C/C++, Go, or Bash. CUDA/NCCL experience is highly valued.