Drimva

NVIDIA

HPC Performance Engineer

$152K–$242K

US, OR, Remote +3 · Full-time · Posted Jul 20, 2026

Location
US, OR, Remote
US, TX, Remote
US, CA, Remote
US, MA, Remote
Experience
5+ years of programming experience.
Education
BS/MS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related engineering field.

About the job

Analyzes and tunes HPC applications on CPU and CPU/GPU platforms, identifying compiler, runtime, library, and system-level improvements.

What you'll do

  • Analyze compiler and optimization effects on HPC application performance and identify opportunities to improve compiler and runtime performance.
  • Port HPC applications across platforms and programming models; evaluate NVHPC components, drivers, and system configurations.
  • Work with compiler development and application engineering teams to communicate compiler limits and deliver performance solutions.

What they ask for

  • BS/MS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related engineering field.
  • 5+ years of programming experience.
  • Solid understanding of Fortran, C, C++, parallel programming techniques, and performance analysis and tuning.
  • Experience with OpenACC, OpenMP, MPI, CUDA and Standard Language Parallelism.

Nice to have

  • Deep understanding of machine architectures and micro-architectures.
  • Experience with debugging, porting, or assembly language programming.

Pay

152,000 USD - 241,500 USD base salary

Tools

Fortran, C, C++, OpenACC, OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, Standard Language Parallelism

AI focus

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes; the role does not state that it involves AI work.

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First seen Oct 16, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)