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Software Engineer, Agent Performance Modeling - New College Grad 2026

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$124k - $195.5kfull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Role focused on building performance models for LLM architectures and developing agents to automate simulation workflows, with collaboration across hardware, inference, runtime, and compiler teams.

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

  • Recently completed a MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Familiarity with modern LLM architectures and their inference characteristics.
  • Experience with simulation, profiling, or performance modeling, including roofline analysis for LLM inference.
  • Strong analytical skills and a rigorous approach to experimentation and validation.
  • Experience building reliable engineering tools using coding agents.

Skills

Required:Roofline analysisSimulation and performance modelingCoding agents / automation tooling

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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