Senior Data Center Performance Engineer, Benchmarking and Optimization
Nvidia
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This role pays more than 94% of similar roles. Most pay $169,875–$235,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $290k versus about $203k 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 896 open roles on FindRole.
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As a Senior Performance Engineer on the DGX Cloud AI Efficiency Team, you will advance the performance, efficiency, and resiliency of large-scale AI workloads. You will analyze end-to-end performance across compute, network, storage, and software stacks while designing rigorous studies to establish baselines, diagnose regressions, and quantify bottlenecks. Your daily work involves using profiling, observability, and data analysis to turn measurements into actionable optimization plans for scalable systems. To succeed, you must possess strong programming skills in C++ and Python, a solid foundation in operating systems, computer architecture, and distributed systems, and experience with benchmarking and profiling complex software. You will collaborate with deep learning engineers and GPU architects to deliver improvements. The role focuses on the technical challenge of optimizing large-scale AI clusters, including training and inference workloads involving CUDA and frameworks like PyTorch or JAX/XLA.
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