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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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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)