Senior Engineer, Performance

Nvidia

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$136,000–$212,750 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
34 days ago
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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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About Nvidia

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.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineer, Performance

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.

What does a Engineer earn in California?

Median $199500 from 103 postings across 31 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Provide competitive and internal data analysis to Marketing, Architecture, and Engineering units.
  • Bring up, maintain, and debug pre-production, reference, and consumer hardware.
  • Run performance, image quality, and power tests on Professional Visualization, AI, and LLM benchmark applications.
  • Develop and maintain Python-based automation scripts and tools to streamline benchmarking procedures.
  • Design new tools and processes to improve benchmarking analysis and reporting workflows.
  • Analyze and validate test results to craft reports for various internal groups.
  • Identify and root-cause performance bottlenecks across hardware and PC components.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a technical or business marketing field.
  • 5+ years of experience in a technical or business marketing field.
  • Knowledge of Enterprise Workstation/AI/LLM application benchmarking fundamentals, performance analysis, and competitive data comparisons.
  • Deep understanding of 3D application performance testing methods and techniques.
  • Excellent programming and debugging skills in a scripting language, with Python preferred.
  • Expert knowledge of hardware and PC components to identify and root-cause performance bottlenecks.
  • Strong verbal and written interpersonal skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to balance multiple simultaneous projects successfully.

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