CareerPlan

Senior Systems Performance Engineer

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$136k–$259k2026-10-28 → 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 of GPU accelerated computing products.

Role type

Senior Systems Performance Engineer (Validation)

Builds

Automated test plans, performance models, and validation coverage for DGX Server products

Domain

Accelerated computing, GPU hardware validation, AI infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

GPU architecture analysis, performance modeling, CUDA programming, Python, Linux debugging, telemetry analysis, experiment design

Preferred skills

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

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; apply architectural analysis to develop system-level performance models; design controlled experiments and correlate predictions with telemetry; analyze performance anomalies and hardware/software failures; build automation for workload deployment and analysis

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC