NVIDIA
Senior Solutions Architect, AI Performance Engineering
$184K–$356K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 17, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of hands-on, validated ML/DL performance engineering experience.
- Education
- BSc/MSc/PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
About the job
Optimizes GPU and distributed AI workloads for autonomous vehicle and robotics customers, while contributing to NVIDIA libraries, applications, and next-generation computing platforms.
What you'll do
- Work with customer engineers to identify performance bottlenecks and develop parallel algorithms, data structures, and GPU solutions.
- Optimize operators through GPU kernel, instruction-level, and compiler tuning, and improve distributed communication for transformer workloads.
- Collaborate with NVIDIA architecture, research, libraries, tools, and system software teams to influence future platforms and programming models.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of hands-on, validated ML/DL performance engineering focused on GPU compute efficiency for training and inference.
- Experience with C, C++, or Python; proficiency with Linux.
- Solid understanding of software development, programming techniques, algorithms, linear algebra, and numerical methods.
- Background in parallel programming and high-performance computing, including parallel architectures and performance analysis and tuning.
Nice to have
- CUDA kernel development and experience with Nsight System and Nsight Compute.
- Distributed communication optimization; full-stack LLM or HPC evaluation and optimization experience.
Pay
184,000 USD - 287,500 USD base salary (Level 4); 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD base salary (Level 5)
Tools
C, C++, Python, Linux, CUDA, cuDNN, cuBLAS, CUTLASS
AI focus
Accelerates Physical AI workloads for autonomous vehicles and robotics, including training and inference performance optimization and distributed transformer communication.
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