Senior Software Engineer, Agent Performance Modeling
Nvidia
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This role pays less than 65% of similar roles. Most pay $152,150–$235,750 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $160k versus about $194k 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
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Listed pay typically runs $184,000–$287,500 across 1110 roles with salary data.
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Software Engineer, Agent Performance Modeling - New College Grad 2026 joins a team combining simulation and agentic engineering to understand emerging architectures and inform hardware and software decisions. This role involves building and validating performance models for LLM architectures across GPU, LPU, and heterogeneous systems. You will develop agents to automate simulation workflows, analyze bottlenecks, and accelerate design space exploration while collaborating with hardware architecture, inference, runtime, and compiler teams to improve modeling accuracy. The position requires a Master of Science in Computer Science or equivalent experience, familiarity with modern LLM architectures, and experience with simulation, profiling, or performance modeling including roofline analysis. Candidates should possess strong analytical skills and experience building reliable engineering tools using coding agents to solve complex problems regarding compute, memory, or communication bottlenecks.
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