NVIDIA
Senior Performance Engineer
$136K–$270K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience in a technical or business marketing field.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Analyzes and reports GPU performance, image quality, and power benchmarks to support NVIDIA product development and business decisions.
What you'll do
- Run benchmarks for Professional Visualization, AI, and LLM applications on GPUs; analyze and validate results.
- Bring up, maintain, and debug pre-production, reference, and consumer hardware.
- Develop Python-based benchmarking tools and automation, and improve analysis and reporting workflows.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience).
- Knowledge of Enterprise Workstation/AI/LLM benchmarking, performance analysis, and competitive comparisons.
- Deep understanding of 3D application performance testing methods and techniques.
- Programming and debugging skills in a scripting language; hardware and PC component expertise to identify performance bottlenecks.
Nice to have
- Experience with LLM development and deployment.
- Knowledge of NVIDIA hardware and software products; benchmarking and competitive analysis experience.
Pay
136,000 USD - 212,750 USD base salary (Level 3); 168,000 USD - 270,250 USD base salary (Level 4)
Tools
Python, GPUs, LLM
AI focus
Runs performance benchmarks for AI and LLM applications; experience with LLM development and deployment is preferred.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative