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Manager, Performance Engineering

NVIDIA· Product Perf Lab
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Canada, TorontoCA$200k - CA$250kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Performance Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for benchmarking, performance characterization, data analysis, automation, and product readiness across NVIDIA’s computing platforms and workloads, spanning Consumer, Enterprise, AI workloads, and emerging areas such as Physical AI and Robotics.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, develop, and grow a team of performance engineers responsible for benchmarking, performance characterization, data analysis, automation, and product readiness
  • Define performance priorities, methodologies, and execution plans while collaborating with engineering, product, and business teams across NVIDIA's global sites
  • Guide development of benchmarks, workloads, test methodologies, and automation used to evaluate current and future NVIDIA platforms
  • Provide technical direction for complex performance investigations across GPUs, CPUs, memory, storage, networking, operating systems, drivers, applications, and AI workloads
  • Review performance data and methodology to ensure results are accurate, reproducible, and rigorously analyzed
  • Drive investigations of performance regressions and opportunities, partnering across hardware and software teams to identify root causes and solutions
  • Translate complex performance results into clear conclusions and recommendations for product development, software optimization, competitive analysis, and future performance requirements
  • Coach and develop engineers while evolving Performance Engineering capabilities across Consumer, Enterprise, Physical AI, Robotics, and other platforms and workloads

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years in performance engineering, systems engineering, software engineering, computer architecture, or related field; 2+ years of management or technical leadership experience
  • Experience leading and developing engineers and delivering complex technical projects across multiple teams
  • Strong understanding of computer systems and interactions between hardware, software, OS, applications, and workloads
  • Experience with performance analysis, benchmarking, workload characterization, or system-level debugging
  • Strong technical judgment to guide investigations and draw conclusions from complex data
  • Familiarity with scripting or software development for automation, data analysis, or engineering tools
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for collaboration across organizations and senior stakeholders

Skills

Required:BenchmarkingPerformance analysisAutomationLeadership

Benefits

  • Competitive salaries
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Equity eligibility
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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