Senior Software Engineer, AI Performance Analysis

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a senior software engineer to automate and optimize performance analysis workflows for AI training and inference workloads. You will design and build scalable tools and workflows that empower a broad audience of engineers across the company.

Responsibilities include translating user needs into tooling, integrating profiling with AI frameworks, and collaborating with performance engineers and hardware teams to identify bottlenecks and automate diagnostics.

Qualifications

• MS/PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 6+ years of relevant work experience; deep knowledge of AI workloads and performance characteristics.
• Experience building tools, workflows, or infrastructure used by other engineers.
• Strong software development skills (Python, C++ preferred).
• Ability to translate user requirements into scalable tooling solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and build performance analysis tools and workflows for AI training and inference workloads.
• Understand engineers' needs and translate them into scalable tooling.
• Develop integrations between profiling infrastructure and AI frameworks/workflows.
• Collaborate with performance engineers, hardware architects, and software teams to align profiling with real-world workloads.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and develop automated detection/diagnosis approaches.

Skills

Python

C++

Tooling development

AI workloads

Translate requirements into tooling

Education

MS/PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

6+ years of relevant experience

Tools

Profiling frameworks

Job description

NVIDIA GPU Architecture Group is seeking a senior software engineer to automate and optimize performance analysis workflows for AI training and inference workloads. You will not only perform analysis but also reshape how it's done, building tools and workflows that scale across a broad audience of engineers. NVIDIA is a world-class leader in AI workload optimization, and your work will push these boundaries even further!

What you'll be doing:

• Design and build performance analysis tools and workflows for AI training and inference workloads.
• Understand how AI performance engineers work and translate their needs into scalable, intuitive tooling.
• Develop integrations between profiling infrastructure and AI frameworks and workflows.
• Collaborate with performance engineers, hardware architects, and software teams to ensure profiling capabilities align with real-world AI workloads.
• Identify performance bottlenecks in AI workloads and develop automated approaches to detect and diagnose them.

What we need to see:

• M.S., or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 6+ years of relevant work experience Deep knowledge of AI workloads, frameworks, and performance characteristics.
• Experience building tools, workflows, or infrastructure used by other engineers.
• Strong software development skills (Python, C++ preferred).
• Ability to translate user requirements into scalable tooling solutions.
• Up to date with AI-enabled tooling for software development and performance analysis.
• Strong interpersonal skills for understanding engineer difficulties and working across multi-functional teams.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience profiling or optimizing AI training or inference pipelines at scale.
• Background building developer tools or platforms for ML engineers.
• Contributions to open-source AI tooling or frameworks.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 27, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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