Senior Performance Engineer — Benchmarking & AI (Equity)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Gruppe in Santa Clara, CA, is seeking a Performance Engineer to drive benchmarking, hardware bring-up, and cross-organization collaboration. You will run GPU performance tests across AI, visualization, and LLM workloads, and develop Python tools to streamline workflows.

The role requires a 5+ year track record in technical benchmarking, strong scripting skills, and deep hardware knowledge. Equity and benefits are included; base salary ranges are disclosed by level.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 5+ years in technical/business marketing fields.
• Strong benchmarking fundamentals, performance analysis and competitive data comparisons.
• Deep understanding of 3D application performance testing methods and techniques.
• Excellent scripting skills in a language such as Python.
• Expert knowledge of hardware components to identify bottlenecks.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Marketing, Architecture, and Engineering to provide competitive data analysis.
• Bring-up and debug pre-production hardware to support product development.
• Run performance, image quality, and power tests on GPUs across applications.
• Develop Python automation scripts to streamline benchmarking procedures.
• Design tools and processes to improve benchmarking reporting workflows.
• Analyze results and craft reports for internal stakeholders.

Skills

Benchmarking basics

Performance analysis

Python scripting

Hardware knowledge

Cross-team collaboration

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Python

Job description

NVIDIA Gruppe in Santa Clara, CA, is seeking a Performance Engineer to drive benchmarking, hardware bring-up, and cross-organization collaboration. You will run GPU performance tests across AI, visualization, and LLM workloads, and develop Python tools to streamline workflows.

The role requires a 5+ year track record in technical benchmarking, strong scripting skills, and deep hardware knowledge. Equity and benefits are included; base salary ranges are disclosed by level.