HPC Performance Engineer

What you'll do

• Analyze the effects of different compilers and optimizations on HPC application performance.
• Evaluate how compilers and runtimes improve performance on CPU and CPU/GPU platforms.
• Communicate compiler capability limits to application engineering teams to guide performance improvements.
• Port HPC applications to various platforms and programming models.
• Evaluate the impact of NVHPC package components, device drivers, and system configurations on performance.
• Identify and implement optimization opportunities for applications ranging from single-core benchmarks to multi-node multi-GPU systems.

What we're looking for

• BS/MS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related engineering field.
• 5+ years of programming experience.
• Solid understanding of Fortran, C, C++, and programming techniques, especially for parallel architectures, preferably for compilers.
• Experience with OpenACC, OpenMP, MPI, CUDA and Standard Language Parallelism.
• Strong skills in performance analysis and tuning, and a broad understanding of parallel applications development tools and runtime environments.
• Strong mathematical fundamentals, including linear algebra and numerical methods.
• Expert interpersonal skills, a logical approach to problem-solving, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Deep understanding of machine architectures, and experience with debugging, porting, and assembly language programming (preferred).