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Senior Software Engineer, Agent Performance Modeling

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$152k - $241.5kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior software engineer focusing on building and validating performance models for LLM architectures across GPU, LPU, and heterogeneous systems, and developing agents to automate simulation workflows and accelerate design space exploration.

Responsibilities

  • Building and validating performance models for LLM architectures across GPU, LPU, and heterogeneous systems.
  • Developing agents to automate simulation workflows, analyze bottlenecks, and accelerate design space exploration.
  • Collaborating with hardware architecture, inference, runtime, and compiler teams to improve modeling accuracy and guide optimization.

Qualifications

  • MS in Computer Science or a related field, with 5+ years of experience.
  • Familiarity with modern LLM architectures and their inference characteristics.
  • Experience with simulation, profiling, or performance modeling, including familiarity with roofline analysis for LLM inference.
  • Strong analytical skills and a rigorous approach to experimentation and validation.
  • Strong software engineering skills and experience building reliable engineering tools using coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, etc.

Skills

Required:Performance modelingModern LLM architectures
Nice to have:Agent development

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits (see NVIDIA benefits)
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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