Senior Performance Engineer
Nvidia
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This role pays more than 51% of similar roles. Most pay $149,500–$213,531 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $174k versus about $182k for comparable roles.
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Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing
Nvidia currently has 1623 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $184,000–$287,500 across 1110 roles with salary data.
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As a Senior Engineer, Performance, you will join a team focused on advancing AI, accelerated computing, and modern graphics technologies. You will work directly with Marketing, Architecture, and Engineering across Enterprise business units to provide competitive and internal data analysis that influences key business decisions and sets industry performance expectations. Your daily responsibilities include bringing up, maintaining, and debugging pre-production, reference, and consumer hardware. You will run performance, image quality, and power tests for Professional Visualization, AI, and LLM benchmark applications on various GPUs. You must develop and maintain Python-based automation scripts to streamline benchmarking procedures and reporting workflows. This role requires expertise in hardware components, 3D application performance testing methods, and competitive data comparisons to identify and root-cause performance bottlenecks within complex technical systems.
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