CareerPlan

Senior Solutions Architect, AI Performance Engineering

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$184k2026-07-17 → 2026-11-10

Core

Accelerate Physical AI workloads for Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics customers by developing and optimizing high-performance GPU algorithms, data structures, and distributed communication strategies.

Role type

Senior Solutions Architect (AI Performance Engineering)

Builds

Next-generation NVIDIA hardware/software architectures, optimized GPU libraries, and efficient distributed transformer workloads.

Domain

Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, High-Performance Computing (HPC), Physical AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

GPU compute efficiency optimization, parallel algorithms, C/C++/Python, Linux, linear algebra, numerical methods, parallel programming, HPC, GPU programming, distributed communication optimization

Preferred skills

CUDA kernel development, Nsight System/Compute, full-stack system evaluation (LLM/HPC), operator/framework/algorithm-level optimization

Technologies

NVIDIA GPUs, cuDNN, cuBLAS, CUTLASS, DeepGEMM, FlashMLA, FlashAttention, Flashinfer, NCCL, NCCL GIN, NVSHMEM, DeepEP, NCCL EP, NVLINK, InfiniBand, RoCE

Responsibilities

Engage with AV application engineers to understand problems and develop parallel algorithms; Collaborate with architecture and research teams to influence next-gen software platforms; Optimize high-performance operators (GPU kernels, instruction tuning, compiler optimization); Improve communication for distributed transformer workloads (interconnects, network protocols, compute-communication overlap).

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC