CareerPlan

Senior Systems Performance Engineer

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$136k–$213k2026-10-28 → 2026-11-10

Core

Develop and tune synthetic GPU workloads and AI training/inference frameworks to stress hardware subsystems, analyze performance anomalies, and build automation for validation coverage.

Role type

Senior IC systems performance engineer (GPU/accelerated computing)

Builds

Automated test plans, performance models, and validation coverage for GPU accelerated computing products

Domain

Hardware/Software systems engineering, GPU architecture, AI infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

GPU architecture analysis, performance modeling, CUDA programming, Python, Linux debugging, AI workload profiling, system telemetry analysis, automated test design

Preferred skills

NVIDIA Dynamo, TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, SGLang, CUDA kernel optimization, x86/Arm server familiarity, NVLink/PCIe/InfiniBand knowledge, hardware error/thermal telemetry analysis

Technologies

CUDA, PyTorch, TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, SGLang, Linux, Python, NCCL, cuBLAS, CUTLASS

Responsibilities

Develop synthetic GPU workloads to stress hardware subsystems; onboard and adapt AI training/inference workloads to new GPU platforms; design controlled experiments correlating model predictions with telemetry; analyze performance anomalies and hardware/software failures; build automation for workload deployment and telemetry collection

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC