Senior AI Training Performance Architect

Nvidia
US, CA, Santa Clara2026-07-24onsite

About the job

NVIDIA is seeking a senior engineer who is obsessed with performance analysis and optimization to help us squeeze every last clock cycle out of AI training, the workload driving the design and construction of the largest and most powerful compute systems in the world. If you are willing to work across all layers of the hardware/software stack - from GPU architecture to the application code - to achieve peak performance, we want to hear from you. This role offers the opportunity to directly impact the hardware and software roadmap in a fast-growing technology company that leads the AI revolution. Join us and help design and build the world's most powerful compute systems!

Responsibilities

Understand, analyze, profile, and optimize AI training workloads on state-of-the-art hardware and software platforms.

Identifying performance bottlenecks of AI training on GPUs, prioritizing and then solving problems across the key AI training workloads.

Implement production-quality software across multiple layers of NVIDIA's deep learning platform stack, from drivers to DL frameworks.

Build and support NVIDIA submissions for MLPerf Training benchmarks.

Implement key DL training workloads in NVIDIA's proprietary processor and system simulators to enable future architecture studies.

Develop tools to automate workload analysis, optimization, and other critical workflows.

Qualifications

Minimum

PhD in CS, EE or CSEE (or equivalent experience) with 5+ years of relevant experience; or MS with 8+ years of experience.

Strong background in deep learning and neural networks, particularly in training.

Solid understanding of computer architecture and familiarity with GPU architecture fundamentals.

Proven background in analyzing and tuning application performance.

Proven experience with processor and system-level performance modeling.

Proficiency in programming with C++, Python, and CUDA.

Preferred

No preferred qualifications listed.