Data Center Performance Engineer — Equity Eligible

NVIDIA Corporation

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 224,000 - 357,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, CA, is seeking a senior performance engineer to lead benchmarking and optimization for our data center products. You will drive performance strategies for AI training, inference, and HPC workloads at scale, and work closely with architecture, hardware, and software teams worldwide.

The role requires 8+ years in performance engineering, deep systems knowledge, and strong Python/C++ skills.

Qualifications

MS or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field (or equivalent).
8+ years of performance engineering or system-architecture experience.
Deep understanding of computer architecture and at-scale computing.
Strong proficiency with perf tools and NVIDIA Nsight Systems.
CUDA GPU programming familiarity; HPC networking knowledge.
Python, C++, and shell scripting skills; strong communication.
Able to collaborate with global cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

Design and execute comprehensive performance benchmarking strategies for data center platforms.
Characterize AI training, inference, and HPC workloads at scale.
Define, track, and report throughput, latency, efficiency, and scaling metrics.
Build automation tools for performance monitoring and analysis.
Identify bottlenecks across compute, memory, network, and storage subsystems.
Collaborate with architecture, hardware, software, networking, and customers.
Drive improvements through tuning and architectural recommendations.