Senior HPC Performance Engineer

NVIDIA Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 184,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Senior HPC Performance Engineer to analyze and optimize HPC applications across distributed-memory systems with CPUs and GPUs. You will drive performance insights for compiler and applications teams and assist customers in accelerating HPC workloads.

Applicants should have a BS/MS or equivalent, 8+ years of programming experience, and deep knowledge of parallel architectures, CUDA, MPI, OpenMP, and OpenACC. Excellent communication and project leadership are a plus.

Qualifications

• BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Science or related engineering field.
• 8+ years of programming experience.
• Strong understanding of Fortran/C/C++, and parallel architectures; preferably for compilers.

Responsibilities

• Analyze HPC applications to understand performance characteristics.
• Advise compiler and applications engineering teams based on analysis.
• Assist customers in GPU-accelerated HPC application optimization.

Skills

Fortran/C/C++

OpenACC

OpenMP

MPI

CUDA

Performance analysis

Parallel architectures

Linear algebra

Numerical methods

Communication skills

Education

BS/MS or equivalent in CS/engineering

Tools

MPI

CUDA

OpenMP

OpenACC

Job description

## Senior HPC Performance EngineerApply: US, OR, Remote: US, TX, Remote: US, CA, Remote: US, MA, Remote: Full time: Posted Today: JR2016206As a member of our team in NVIDIA's NVHPC compilers & tools group, you will analyze and run High Performance Computing (HPC) applications on HPC servers and systems to gain insight into the performance characteristics of these applications. The applications you'll work with range from small synthetic benchmarks that use a single core to full applications that utilize all of the resources on distributed-memory systems with heterogeneous compute nodes including CPUs, GPUs and many-core processors. In this role you will analyze these applications and identify optimization opportunities for compiler development teams and application engineering teams.**What you’ll be doing:*** Assist customers GPU accelerate HPC applications.* Analyze High Performance Computing (HPC) applications to better understand their performance characteristics.* Provide advise and drive compiler and applications engineering development teams based on the analysis of these HPC applications.**What we need to see:*** BS/MS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related engineering field.* 8+ Years of programming experience.* Solid understanding of Fortran/C/C++, as well as programming techniques, especially for parallel architectures; preferably for compilers* Experience with OpenACC, OpenMP, MPI, and CUDA.* Strong skills in performance analysis and tuning, as well as a broad understanding of parallel applications development tools and runtime environments.* Strong mathematical fundamentals, including linear algebra and numerical methods.* Understand performance considerations, tradeoffs and impact.* Expert interpersonal skills, logical approach to problem solving, good time management and task prioritization skills. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, along with the ability to work in a dynamic product oriented team.**Ways to stand out from the crowd:*** You have a deep understanding of machine architectures and micro-architectures.* Experience with debugging and porting as well as assembly language programming is a significant advantage.* Experience is leading and/or managing projects is a plus.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.You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 18, 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.