Senior Performance Engineer: AI/LLM Benchmark Lead

NVIDIA Corporation

Santa Clara (CA)

Hybrid

USD 136,000 - 270,000

Full time

6 days ago
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NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, California is seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to advance AI, graphics, and benchmarking across Enterprise, AI, and LLM workloads. You will work with Marketing, Architecture, and Engineering to set performance expectations and influence product direction.

The role requires hands-on testing, Python scripting, and the ability to analyze complex data. You will bring-up hardware, run tests, and report findings to multiple teams, while collaborating across

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 5+ years in technical or business marketing.
  • Strong knowledge of enterprise/AI/LLM benchmarking fundamentals.
  • Experience with 3D/graphics performance testing methods.

Responsibilities

  • Run performance tests on GPUs across Enterprise, AI, and LLM workloads.
  • Develop Python automation scripts to streamline benchmarking.
  • Analyze test results and craft reports for multiple teams.
  • Collaborate with Marketing, Architecture, and Engineering.
  • Bring-up and debug pre-production hardware for benchmarking.

Skills

Performance analysis
Benchmarking
Python scripting
Hardware bottlenecks
Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Python

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, California is seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to advance AI, graphics, and benchmarking across Enterprise, AI, and LLM workloads. You will work with Marketing, Architecture, and Engineering to set performance expectations and influence product direction.

The role requires hands-on testing, Python scripting, and the ability to analyze complex data. You will bring-up hardware, run tests, and report findings to multiple teams, while collaborating across

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