CareerPlan

HPC & AI Performance Engineer

Houston, Texas, United States of AmericaFull-time$109k–$251k2026-10-06 → 2026-11-12
Hybrid · United StatesCitizens or permanent residents only

Core

Lead HPC and AI benchmarking projects, evaluate architectures, and optimize performance for scientific, engineering, and large language model (LLM) workloads.

Role type

Senior IC HPC & AI Performance Engineer

Builds

HPC and AI solutions for government accounts

Domain

High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

HPC and AI workloads, parallel/distributed programming (MPI, OpenMP), GPU acceleration (CUDA, HIP), performance profiling, Linux systems, C/C++/Fortran/Python

Preferred skills

PhD in CS/Engineering/Math/Physics

Technologies

NVIDIA GPUs, AMD Instinct MI-series, MLPerf, DeepSeek, Kimi K2.6, gpt-oss-120b, MPI-IO, OpenACC

Responsibilities

Lead HPC and AI benchmarking projects across CPU, GPU, network, memory, and storage platforms; Evaluate HPE and competitive HPC and AI architectures using performance models; Run and analyze scientific, engineering, LLM, AI training and inference, storage, and I/O workloads; Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize applications, AI frameworks, libraries, compilers, runtimes, and system software.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC