Senior Performance Engineer — Benchmarking & AI

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 213,000; Full time

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Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara is seeking a Performance Engineer to push the limits of AI, graphics, and accelerated computing. You will bring up hardware, run performance tests on GPUs, and develop Python automation to streamline benchmarks.

Work with Marketing, Architecture, and Engineering to shape product initiatives and influence decisions. Base salary ranges with equity and benefits are offered, with an application deadline noted in the posting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience plus 5+ years in a technical or business marketing field.
• Experience with Enterprise Workstation/AI/LLM benchmarking; performance analysis and competitive comparisons.
• Deep understanding of 3D application performance testing methods and techniques.
• Strong scripting skills, Python preferred, for automation and tooling.
• Expert knowledge of hardware and PC components to identify root causes of bottlenecks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; ability to balance multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Marketing, Architecture, and Engineering across Enterprise units to provide competitive and internal data analysis.
• Bring up, maintain, and debug pre-production, reference, and consumer hardware.
• Run performance, image quality, and power tests for Professional Visualization, AI, and LLM workloads across GPUs.
• Develop Python-based automation scripts and tools to streamline benchmarking and configuration management.
• Design new tools and processes to improve benchmarking analysis and reporting workflows.
• Analyze test results and craft reports for various internal stakeholders.

Skills

Python scripting

Benchmarking fundamentals

3D application performance testing

Hardware knowledge

Interpersonal skills

Project juggling

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, 5+ years

Job description

NVIDIA in Santa Clara is seeking a Performance Engineer to push the limits of AI, graphics, and accelerated computing. You will bring up hardware, run performance tests on GPUs, and develop Python automation to streamline benchmarks.

Work with Marketing, Architecture, and Engineering to shape product initiatives and influence decisions. Base salary ranges with equity and benefits are offered, with an application deadline noted in the posting.