Senior Performance Engineer

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation seeks a Performance Engineer to join a team advancing AI, accelerated computing, and modern graphics technologies. You will work with Marketing, Architecture, and Engineering to produce competitive data analyses and influence product decisions.

You will run benchmarks across GPUs and develop automation tools to streamline testing. The role requires a Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, strong Python skills, and deep hardware knowledge to identify

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in a technical or business marketing field.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Marketing, Architecture, and Engineering across Enterprise to provide competitive and internal data analysis.
• Set industry performance expectations and influence product decisions.
• Bring up and debug pre‑production hardware to support NVIDIA products.
• Run performance, image quality, and power tests on GPUs for Professional Visualization, AI, and LLM benchmarks.
• Develop Python tools to automate benchmarking and balance configuration files.
• Design tools and processes to improve benchmarking reporting workflows.
• Analyze test results and craft reports used internally.

Skills

Performance analysis

Python scripting

Hardware knowledge

Cross‑functional collaboration

Project juggling

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Python

Job description

As a Performance Engineer at NVIDIA, you will be part of a team that’s advancing the limits of what technology can achieve. This is an outstanding opportunity to work at the forefront of AI, accelerated computing, and modern graphics technologies. You will play a crucial role in crafting the future of our products and influencing key business decisions. If you’re passionate about performance analysis and eager to contribute to world‑class innovations, this is the perfect role for you!

What you’ll be doing:

• Work directly with Marketing, Architecture, and Engineering across Enterprise business units to provide competitive and internal data analysis.
• Your insights will set industry performance expectations, support new product initiatives, and influence business decisions.
• Bring‑up, maintain, and debug pre‑production, reference, and consumer hardware to help build the next great NVIDIA product.
• Run performance, image quality, and power tests of Professional Visualization, AI, and LLM benchmark applications on various GPUs
• Develop and maintain Python‑based automation scripts and tools to streamline benchmarking procedures and balance configuration files.
• Design new tools and create efficient processes to improve benchmarking analysis and reporting workflows
• Analyze and validate results from test runs and craft reports that will be used by various groups within the company.

What we need to see:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) with 5+ years of experience in a technical or business marketing field.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Workstation/AI/LLM application benchmarking fundamentals, performance analysis, and competitive data comparisons.
• Deep understanding in the field 3D application performance testing methods and techniques.
• Excellent programming and debugging skills in a scripting language; Python preferred.
• Expert knowledge of hardware & PC components to identify and root‑cause performance bottlenecks.
• Strong verbal and written interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to balance multiple simultaneous projects successfully.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Strong skills or previous experience in benchmarking and competitive analysis.
• Experience with LLM development and deployment.
• Knowledge of NVIDIA hardware and NVIDIA software products.
• Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

The base salary range is 136,000 USD - 212,750 USD for Level 3, and 168,000 USD - 270,250 USD for Level 4.

• You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until September 21, 2026.

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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.

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