DevTech Engineer: GPU-Accelerated Databases

2100 NVIDIA USA; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 288,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Developer Technology Engineer for High-Performance Databases to research new algorithms and memory management techniques that accelerate databases on modern GPU architectures. You will work with experts across research, hardware, system software, and tools to optimize data-intensive workloads.

The role offers a hybrid work model with base salaries in the 152k-287.5k USD range depending on level, plus equity and benefits. Applications are open until August 10, 2026.

Qualifications

• Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related computationally focused science degree (or equivalent experience).
• At least 5+ years of relevant work or research experience.
• Programming fluency in C/C++ with a deep understanding of algorithms and software design.
• Hands-on experience with low-level parallel programming: CUDA, OpenACC, OpenMP, MPI, pthreads, TBB, etc.
• In-depth expertise with CPU/GPU architecture fundamentals, especially memory subsystem.
• Domain expertise in high performance databases, ETL and data analytics
• Good communication and organization skills, with a logical approach to problem solving, and prioritization skills.

Responsibilities

• In this role, you will research and develop techniques to GPU-accelerate high performance database and ETL applications.
• Work directly with other technical experts in their fields to perform in-depth analysis and optimization of complex data intensive workloads to ensure the best possible performance of current GPU architectures.
• Influence the design of next-generation hardware architectures, software, and programming models in collaboration with research, hardware, system software, libraries, and tools teams at NVIDIA

Skills

C/C++

CUDA

OpenACC

OpenMP

MPI

pthreads

TBB

CPU/GPU architecture

Education

Masters or PhD in Computer Science/Computer Engineering

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Developer Technology Engineer for High-Performance Databases to research new algorithms and memory management techniques that accelerate databases on modern GPU architectures. You will work with experts across research, hardware, system software, and tools to optimize data-intensive workloads.

The role offers a hybrid work model with base salaries in the 152k-287.5k USD range depending on level, plus equity and benefits. Applications are open until August 10, 2026.