NVIDIA
Senior Engineer, Performance
$136K–$213K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a technical or business marketing field.
About the job
Conducts GPU performance benchmarking and analysis, maintains test hardware and automation tools, and reports findings to support product and business decisions.
What you'll do
- Run performance, image quality, and power tests for Professional Visualization, AI, and LLM benchmark applications on GPUs.
- Bring up, maintain, and debug pre-production, reference, and consumer hardware; develop Python-based automation and benchmarking tools.
- Analyze and validate test results and produce reports for internal teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a technical or business marketing field.
- Knowledge of Enterprise Workstation/AI/LLM benchmarking fundamentals, performance analysis, and competitive data comparisons.
- Deep understanding of 3D application performance testing methods and techniques; expert knowledge of hardware and PC components for identifying performance bottlenecks.
- Excellent programming and debugging skills in a scripting language; Python preferred.
Nice to have
- Experience with LLM development and deployment.
- Knowledge of NVIDIA hardware and NVIDIA software products; benchmarking and competitive-analysis experience.
Pay
136,000 USD - 212,750 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, GPUs, LLM
AI focus
Runs AI and LLM application benchmarks; LLM development and deployment experience is a preferred qualification. NVIDIA states that it uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.
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