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# Performance Engineer - Deep Learning

- **Company:** NVIDIA Ltd.
- **Location:** Santa Clara, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $124,000.0 - $195,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C++ (Programming Language), Software Code Optimization, Profiling, Nvidia CUDA, Systems Theories, Python (Programming Language), Open Source Technology, OpenAI, System Programming, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Pytorch, Large Language Models, Deep Learning, cuDNN, Attention Mechanisms, Information Technology
- **Published:** October 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/performance-engineer-deep-learning-2100-nvidia-usa-10300012

## About the Role

* BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
 * 2+ years of experience in C++ and Python programming.
 * Strong background, experience, or coursework in parallel systems programming, preferably on GPUs.
 * Knowledge of Computer Architecture, Code Optimization, and/or Operating Systems.
 * Proven experience in developing large software projects.
 * Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

 * Experience in PyTorch, JAX, or any other DL framework.
 * Experience with performance analysis, profiling, and code optimization techniques, especially with multi-GPU or multi-node systems.
 * Knowledge of modern LLM architectures, attention mechanisms, and/or low-level DL libraries such as cuBLAS, cuDNN, and cuSOLVER.
 * Experience in writing GPU kernels using any of - CUDA, OpenAI Triton, CuTeDSL, Pallas, or other similar libraries.
 * Any past contributions to the open source community and/or experience working with multidisciplinary teams also showcase readiness for the team's responsibilities.

## Description

* Build and support Transformer Engine, the open-source library for accelerating the training of Large Language Models.
 * Collaborate on systems research that improves Deep Learning model performance, such as training using extremely low precision, parallelism methods, etc.
 * Implement, benchmark, and optimize new Deep Learning models such as LLMs straight out of groundbreaking research to scale efficiently on NVIDIA GPUs and systems.
 * Build and contribute to NVIDIA submissions on community benchmarks such as MLPerf.
 * Engage with the open-source community as well as support enterprise customers and partners by delivering the benefits of NVIDIA's latest hardware and software innovations.
 * Influence the design of new hardware generations and core platform software components for NVIDIA hardware and systems.