Senior Developer Technology Engineer, Public Sector

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 287,500; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Developer Technology Engineer to join its Public Sector team in Santa Clara. The candidate will research techniques to GPU-accelerate applications in areas like AI and weather modeling, while collaborating with key developers.

This role requires an MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field, along with fluency in C/C++ and parallel programming. The position offers significant salary potential, with a range of 184,000 to 287,500 USD for Level 4 and 224,000 to 356,500 USD for Level 5.

Qualifications

• Have an MS or PhD degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering or STEM field.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience with parallel programming.
• Passion for optimizing codes to run exceptionally fast through parallel programming.

Responsibilities

• Working directly with key application developers on parallel algorithms.
• Collaborating with diverse teams at NVIDIA to influence design.
• Conducting analysis and optimization for GPU performance.

Skills

C/C++ programming fluency

Parallel programming knowledge

CUDA C/C++, OpenMP, MPI

Algorithms and data structures understanding

Education

MS or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or STEM

Tools

Nsight Systems

Nsight Compute

Job description

We are now seeking a Senior Developer Technology Engineer for the Public Sector!

NVIDIA is hiring passionate, world‑class computer scientists and engineers to work in its Public Sector Developer Technology (Devtech) team! In this role, you will research and develop techniques to GPU‑accelerate leading applications in the federal ecosystem, including fields such as CFD, Electronic Design Automation, Graph Theory, Weather/Climate Modeling, and AI in HPC. You will be performing in-depth analysis and optimization to ensure the best possible performance on current and next‑generation GPU architectures.

What you’ll be doing:

• Working directly with key application developers to understand the current and future problems they are solving, crafting and optimizing core parallel algorithms and data structures to provide the best solutions using GPUs, through reference code development, direct contribution to the full software stack including libraries, applications.
• Collaborating closely with diverse groups at NVIDIA such as the architecture, research, libraries, tools, and system software teams to influence the design of architectures, software, and programming models, by investigating the impact on application performance and developer productivity.
• Occasional travel from time to time for conferences and on‑site visits with developers.

What we need to see:

• Have an MS or PhD degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering or STEM field.
• Programming fluency in C/C++ with a deep understanding of software design, programming techniques, and algorithms.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience with parallel programming, ideally CUDA C/C++, OpenMP or MPI, or SHMEM (OpenSHMEM or NVSHMEM).
• Strong computer science fundamentals, ideally including parallel data structures and algorithms, combinatorics, and sparse representations.
• Passion for optimizing codes to run exceptionally fast through parallel programming.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience optimizing complex codes, especially for GPUs, including kernel optimization and strong understanding of how software runs on hardware. A background with algorithm and architecture codesign is a plus.
• Domain expertise in any of the following: electronic design automation, high-performance computing, computational fluid dynamics, data and graph analytics, data‑science, network analysis, machine learning, or deep learning.
• Experience in profiling and optimizing applications and frameworks including experience with Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute.
• Experience in developing or optimizing workflows involving HPC and AI models.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

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Applications for this job will be accepted at least until April 13, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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