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# Senior System Software Engineer - GPU Performance at NVIDIA

Compensation · Listed in posting

$152,000 – $241,500/yr

**Location**
: Santa Clara, California

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: mid

**Posted**
: Oct 3, 2026

## Description

NVIDIA is hiring a Performance Engineer for its GPU Communications Libraries and Networking team to characterize and analyze performance across large multi-GPU and multi-node clusters, study library interactions with hardware and software, evaluate proof-of-concepts, triage customer-reported performance issues, and build visualization and analysis tools. The role requires an M.S. or equivalent experience or a PhD in Computer Science or a related field, at least three years of parallel programming and communication runtime experience, HPC performance benchmarking experience, systems software fundamentals, C/C++ micro-benchmarking, debugging across the hardware and software stack, and familiarity with containers, cloud provisioning, and scheduling tools. The base salary range is 152,000 USD to 241,500 USD for Level 3 and 184,000 USD to 287,500 USD for Level 4, with equity and benefits.

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