Performance​/ Benchmark Engineer - NVIDIA GPU Systems

Performance/ Benchmark Engineer - NVIDIA GPU Systems (BH-399465)

Location Santa Clara, United States Sector Engineering Salary $ to $ per hour Benefits $250k-$300k Base + Equity Options

Seeking a hands-on Performance and Benchmarking Engineer to characterize and optimize AI workloads running on large-scale NVIDIA GPU infrastructure. This role sits within an architecture team and focuses primarily on GPU compute performance, AI inference, and system-level benchmarking, with networking performance as a secondary consideration.

• Develop and execute performance benchmarks for AI inference and machine learning workloads across NVIDIA GPU systems.
• Characterize performance on platforms including NVIDIA DGX and B200/B300-based systems, analyzing throughput, latency, utilization, memory behavior, and scaling efficiency.
• Evaluate AI models and workload configurations to identify performance bottlenecks and recommend system or architecture improvements.
• Build benchmarking methodologies, automation, and reporting frameworks to produce repeatable performance results.
• Collaborate with architecture, compute, networking, and software teams to optimize end-to-end AI cluster performance.

• Deep hands-on experience with NVIDIA GPU compute platforms and AI/ML performance benchmarking.
• Strong understanding of AI inference, model performance, workload characterization, and GPU architecture.
• Experience with NVIDIA DGX, B200/B300, H100/H200, Blackwell, Hopper, or comparable GPU systems.
• Experience analyzing performance metrics including latency, throughput, GPU utilization, memory bandwidth, and multi-GPU scaling.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python or similar languages.

• Experience with MLPerf, CUDA, NCCL, TensorRT, Triton Inference Server, PyTorch, Nsight, or similar AI performance and profiling technologies.
• Experience benchmarking LLMs, inference workloads, distributed training, or large-scale GPU clusters.
• Familiarity with RDMA, RoCE, Infini Band, Ethernet, GPUDirect RDMA, or networking considerations affecting GPU cluster performance.

Estimated Min Rate
: $/Annually

Estimated Max Rate
: $/Annually

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Benefit eligibility is in accordance with applicable laws and client requirements. Benefits include:

• Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Benefits (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• Health Savings Account (HSA) (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• Life & Disability Insurance (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• Met Life Voluntary Benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401K Retirement Savings Plan
• Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll
• Referral Bonus Programs
• Certification and training opportunities

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