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Senior Performance Engineer

NVIDIA· Engineer, Performance
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Santa Clara, CA$136k - $212.8kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Performance Engineer role focused on benchmarking, performance analysis, and tooling to support NVIDIA's Enterprise, AI, and LLM initiatives across professional visualization, AI, and related workloads.

Responsibilities

  • Work directly with Marketing, Architecture, and Engineering across Enterprise business units to provide competitive and internal data analysis. Your insights will set industry performance expectations, support new product initiatives, and influence business decisions.
  • Bring-up, maintain, and debug pre-production, reference, and consumer hardware to help build the next great NVIDIA product.
  • Run performance, image quality, and power tests of Professional Visualization, AI, and LLM benchmark applications on various GPUs
  • Develop and maintain Python-based automation scripts and tools to streamline benchmarking procedures and balance configuration files.
  • Design new tools and create efficient processes to improve benchmarking analysis and reporting workflows
  • Analyze and validate results from test runs and craft reports that will be used by various groups within the company.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) with 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 in the field 3D application performance testing methods and techniques.
  • Excellent programming and debugging skills in a scripting language; Python preferred.
  • Expert knowledge of hardware & PC components to identify and root-cause performance bottlenecks.
  • Strong verbal and written interpersonal skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to balance multiple simultaneous projects successfully.

Skills

Required:PythonBenchmarkingHardware performance analysis

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (as per company offerings)
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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