Engineering Manager, Inference Benchmarking — AI Perf

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Technical Lead Manager to lead the AIPerf benchmark platform engineering. You will guide the core infrastructure, oversee load generation, GPU telemetry, and Kubernetes deployments, and ensure data-driven, reproducible results for industry partners.

You will mentor senior engineers, collaborate with Dynamo and NIM teams, and drive open-source contributions while aligning with the company's advanced AI hardware and software efforts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience for performance-critical infrastructure, ML tooling, or distributed systems.
• 3+ years of engineering leadership as tech lead or manager.
• Deep understanding of LLM inference mechanics and measurement reproducibility.
• Proven track record delivering production-quality output in high-velocity, high-visibility environments.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical roadmap for AIPerf core infrastructure including load generation and GPU telemetry.
• Own accuracy and statistical soundness of benchmark results used by industry.
• Advise upstream engine integrations with vLLM, TRT-LLM, and SGLang with Dynamo/NIM teams.
• Hire, mentor, and grow a team of senior engineers in a fast-moving open-source environment.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

ML tooling

Kubernetes

GPU telemetry

Benchmarking

Open source collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

Tools

DCGM/PyNVML

Prometheus

ZMQ

Kubernetes tooling

Job description

About NVIDIA

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It's an outstanding legacy of innovation that's fueled by great technology—and amazing people. Today, we're tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what's never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world's best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you'll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Come join the team and see how you can make a lasting impact on the world. NVIDIA's open-source benchmarking platform, AIPerf, is the growing standard for assessing LLM serving performance across various inference frameworks. Hyperscalers, cloud providers, and enterprises use AIPerf to inform decisions on production inference. This includes choosing GPUs, optimizing costs, reducing latency, improving efficiency, and scaling. As Technical Lead Manager, you will lead the engineering team within NVIDIA's Dynamo organization. Your responsibility is to build and advance the platform so AIPerf becomes the leading benchmarking tool for datacenter, local, and edge use cases. This span LLM, multimodal, diffusion, and computer vision inference. This position combines hands-on leadership with expertise in systems engineering, inference infrastructure, and open-source communities. It has a direct effect on how AI performance is measured and pushed forward.

What you'll be doing

• Driving the technical roadmap for AIPerf's core infrastructure: load generation, ZMQ-based microservices, GPU telemetry (DCGM/PyNVML, Prometheus metrics, statistical confidence intervals, and Kubernetes-native deployment.
• Taking ownership for the accuracy and statistical soundness of benchmark results that engineering groups throughout the industry depend on to inform production infrastructure decisions.
• Advising upstream engine integrations involving vLLM, TRT-LLM, and SGLang in partnership with NVIDIA's Dynamo and NIM teams to maintain AIPerf's relevance across emerging hardware, workload categories, and inference configurations.
• Hiring, mentoring, and growing a team of senior engineers operating in a high-velocity open-source environment with active external contributors worldwide.

What we need to see

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ overall years of software engineering experience building performance-critical infrastructure, ML tooling, or distributed systems.
• 3+ years of engineering leadership experience as a tech lead, TLM, or engineering manager.
• Deep understanding of LLM inference mechanics - TTFT, ITL, KV caching, Prefill/Decode, speculative decoding - and the ability to reason about measurement correctness and reproducibility.
• Proven track record of collaborating across multi-functional groups and delivering production-quality output in high-velocity, high-external-visibility environments.

Ways to stand out from the crowd

• Extensive experience with vLLM, TRT-LLM or SGLang internals along with contributions to their upstream projects.
• Experience building Kubernetes-native infrastructure including operators, Helm charts, and GPU observability tooling (DCGM, dcgm-exporter, PyNVML).
• Background in competitive benchmarking frameworks such as MLPerf or equivalent industry-standard evaluation systems.
• History leading or making meaningful contributions to active open-source projects with external communities.

Widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers, NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. As you plan your future, see what we can offer to you and your family www.nvidiabenefits.com/ Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Applications for this job will be accepted at least until June 1, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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