Senior GPU Systems Performance Architect

Socket.dev; North Carolina; On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Systems Performance Engineer to build profiling infrastructure that spans CPU and GPU environments. You’ll measure, analyze, and optimize interaction between design graphs in system memory and GPU kernels, driving improvements across multi-node setups.

The role requires deep CUDA knowledge, extensive profiling tool expertise (Nsight, perf, VTune), and a track record of turning data into engineering roadmaps. Equity and benefits are provided.

Qualifications

• A BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience) with extensive systems performance analysis.
• Strong experience with GPU profiling tools and CUDA programming model.
• Proven ability to distill complex data into actionable roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain custom profiling frameworks across CPU and GPU environments.
• Benchmark EDA workloads to characterize memory, cache, and parallelism.
• Use GPU profilers to detect warp divergence and bottlenecks.
• Develop memory usage tools for multi-terabyte EDA builds.
• Build predictive models for hardware procurement and cloud choices.

Skills

CUDA programming model

Benchmarking mindset

Systems performance analysis

Cross-architecture profiling

Troubleshooting GPU bottlenecks

Education

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)

Tools

NVIDIA Nsight Systems

NVIDIA Nsight Compute

perf

eBPF

VTune

Valgrind

Slurm

LSF

Kubernetes

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Systems Performance Engineer to build profiling infrastructure that spans CPU and GPU environments. You’ll measure, analyze, and optimize interaction between design graphs in system memory and GPU kernels, driving improvements across multi-node setups.

The role requires deep CUDA knowledge, extensive profiling tool expertise (Nsight, perf, VTune), and a track record of turning data into engineering roadmaps. Equity and benefits are provided.