Senior Simulation Performance Engineer - CUDA/C++ (Equity)

Nvidia Corporation in; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 431,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Developer Technology Engineer to advance physics and robotics simulation performance on NVIDIA GPUs. You will work at the intersection of algorithms, mathematics, GPU architecture, and production software to improve real applications and deliver durable code to NVIDIA engineering teams.

You will write and optimize production C++, CUDA, and Python, build rigorous benchmarks and performance models, and collaborate across teams to ensure scalable, lasting improvements

Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant experience.
• A degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Science, or a related field— or equivalent experience.
• Publicly inspectable stewardship of a consequential open-source engine, library, standard, benchmark, or software framework.
• A record of delivering large, reproducible performance improvements in production numerical, simulation, graphics, CAE, robotics, or scientific-computing systems.
• Expert modern C++ and GPU parallel-programming ability, backed by strong foundations in mathematics, physics, numerical methods, geometry, or performance modeling.

Responsibilities

• Establish and execute performance strategies for physics, robotics simulation workloads on NVIDIA GPUs.
• Build benchmarks and performance models, profile customer applications from system architecture through GPU kernels, and identify bottlenecks.
• Improve algorithms, data structures, memory layouts, and parallel execution with partner developers; collaborate with NVIDIA engineering teams.
• Apply reinforcement learning, robotic kinematics simulation setup and validation to partner challenges.
• Write production C++, CUDA, Python code into simulation platforms, partner applications, and reusable references.
• Collaborate across developers, NVIDIA architecture/ software teams, and open communities to sustain improvements beyond a single engagement.

Skills

Modern C++

GPU parallel programming

Mathematics

Physics

Performance modeling

Python

Education

CS/Applied Math/Physics degree

Equivalent experience

Tools

CUDA

Warp

PhysX

Isaac Sim

MuJoCo

JAX

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Developer Technology Engineer to advance physics and robotics simulation performance on NVIDIA GPUs. You will work at the intersection of algorithms, mathematics, GPU architecture, and production software to improve real applications and deliver durable code to NVIDIA engineering teams.

You will write and optimize production C++, CUDA, and Python, build rigorous benchmarks and performance models, and collaborate across teams to ensure scalable, lasting improvements