Senior GPU/CPU Performance Engineer

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA seeks a Senior Systems Performance Engineer to design profiling infrastructure across CPU and GPU environments, focusing on EDA workloads. You will benchmark, analyze memory access, and optimize GPU kernels to push the limits of high-throughput computing.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in systems-level performance analysis, strong CUDA knowledge, and experience with Nsight, perf, VTune, and other profiling tools.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in CS, EE or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in systems-level performance analysis and profiling.
• Strong CUDA knowledge and GPU profiling experience with Nsight tools.

Responsibilities

• Architecting and maintaining profiling frameworks spanning CPU and GPU environments.
• Conducting deep-dive benchmarking of EDA workloads and GPU kernels.
• Using profilers to detect GPU-side inefficiencies and bottlenecks.
• Developing tools to monitor memory usage in large builds and optimize memory pooling.
• Building predictive models to guide hardware procurement and cloud choices.

Skills

CUDA programming

GPU profiling

Performance benchmarking

Distributed compute environments

Systems-level performance analysis

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/EE or related

Tools

NVIDIA Nsight Systems/Compute

perf

eBPF

VTune

Valgrind

Kubernetes

Slurm

LSF

Job description

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA seeks a Senior Systems Performance Engineer to design profiling infrastructure across CPU and GPU environments, focusing on EDA workloads. You will benchmark, analyze memory access, and optimize GPU kernels to push the limits of high-throughput computing.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in systems-level performance analysis, strong CUDA knowledge, and experience with Nsight, perf, VTune, and other profiling tools.