Performance/ Benchmark Engineer - NVIDIA GPU Systems

YOH Services LLC; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Health Savings Account (HSA)

401K Retirement Savings Plan

Life & Disability Insurance

Referral Bonus Programs

Job summary

YOH Services LLC is seeking a hands-on Performance/Benchmark Engineer to characterize and optimize AI workloads on large-scale NVIDIA GPU infrastructure. The role emphasizes GPU compute performance, AI inference, and system-level benchmarking within an architecture team.

Responsibilities include developing benchmarks, evaluating models for bottlenecks, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve end-to-end cluster performance. Located in California with on-site duties.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with NVIDIA GPU compute platforms and AI/ML benchmarking.
• Understanding of AI inference, performance modeling, and GPU architecture.
• Experience with DGX, B200/B300, H100/H200, Blackwell, Hopper or comparable GPUs.
• Ability to analyze latency, throughput, memory bandwidth, and multi-GPU scaling.
• Strong Python scripting and automation skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and run performance benchmarks for AI inference across GPU systems.
• Characterize performance on DGX and related platforms, analyzing throughput and latency.
• Identify bottlenecks and propose system or architecture improvements.
• Build benchmarking methodologies, automation, and reporting frameworks for repeatable results.
• Collaborate with architecture, compute, networking, and software teams to optimize end-to-end performance.

Skills

NVIDIA GPU compute

AI inference benchmarking

GPU architecture knowledge

Python scripting

Tools

CUDA

NCCL

TensorRT

Nsight

Job description

Performance/ Benchmark Engineer - NVIDIA GPU Systems

NVIDIA GPU Systems / AI Inference / Performance Engineering

Overview

Seeking a hands-on Performance and Benchmarking Engineer to characterize and optimize AI workloads running on large-scale NVIDIA GPU infrastructure. This role sits within an architecture team and focuses primarily on GPU compute performance, AI inference, and system-level benchmarking, with networking performance as a secondary consideration.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute performance benchmarks for AI inference and machine learning workloads across NVIDIA GPU systems.
• Characterize performance on platforms including NVIDIA DGX and B200/B300-based systems, analyzing throughput, latency, utilization, memory behavior, and scaling efficiency.
• Evaluate AI models and workload configurations to identify performance bottlenecks and recommend system or architecture improvements.
• Build benchmarking methodologies, automation, and reporting frameworks to produce repeatable performance results.
• Collaborate with architecture, compute, networking, and software teams to optimize end-to-end AI cluster performance.

Required Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience with NVIDIA GPU compute platforms and AI/ML performance benchmarking.
• Strong understanding of AI inference, model performance, workload characterization, and GPU architecture.
• Experience with NVIDIA DGX, B200/B300, H100/H200, Blackwell, Hopper, or comparable GPU systems.
• Experience analyzing performance metrics including latency, throughput, GPU utilization, memory bandwidth, and multi-GPU scaling.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python or similar languages.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with MLPerf, CUDA, NCCL, TensorRT, Triton Inference Server, PyTorch, Nsight, or similar AI performance and profiling technologies.
• Experience benchmarking LLMs, inference workloads, distributed training, or large-scale GPU clusters.
• Familiarity with RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand, Ethernet, GPUDirect RDMA, or networking considerations affecting GPU cluster performance.

Estimated Min Rate: $250,000.00/Annually

Estimated Max Rate: $300,000.00/Annually

What's In It for You?

Benefit eligibility is in accordance with applicable laws and client requirements. Benefits include:

• Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Benefits (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• Health Savings Account (HSA) (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• Life & Disability Insurance (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• MetLife Voluntary Benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401K Retirement Savings Plan
• Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll
• Referral Bonus Programs
• Certification and training opportunities

Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations. Actual pay is determined by an applicant's experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description. All qualified applicants are welcome to apply.

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Visit https://www.yoh.com/applicants-with-disabilities to contact us if you are an individual with a disability and require accommodation in the application process.

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