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# Senior Performance Architect - Heterogeneous Workload Optimization at NVIDIA

Compensation · Listed in posting

$184,000 – $287,500/yr

**Setup**
: Hybrid

**Location**
: Santa Clara, California · Westford, Massachusetts · +2

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: senior

**Posted**
: Sep 6, 2026

## Description

NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Systems Performance Engineer to build profiling infrastructure for EDA workloads transitioning to GPU-accelerated systems. The role involves architecting CPU and GPU profiling frameworks, benchmarking memory access, cache behavior, and instruction-level parallelism, detecting GPU inefficiencies, monitoring multi-terabyte memory usage, and developing predictive models for hardware and cloud selection. Candidates need CUDA and GPU profiling expertise, distributed-compute experience, and at least five years of systems-level performance analysis experience. The posting is marked hybrid and accepts applications through September 10, 2026.

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