Senior Deep Learning Performance Architect - LPU

About the role

NVIDIA seeks a Senior DL Performance Architect to join a pioneering team focused on advancing AI Inference performance through hardware-software co-design.

Responsibilities

• Design novel GPU and system architectures to advance AI Inference performance
• Construct, investigate, and test popular deep learning algorithms and applications
• Understand and analyze the relationship between hardware and software architectures influencing future algorithms and applications
• Build efficient power and performance models of AI inference stack, capturing minimal but significant information to guide next-gen HW architecture
• Collaborate across the company to guide the direction of AI, working with software, research, and product teams

Requirements

• A MS or PhD in a relevant field (CS, EE, Math) or equivalent experience, with 5+ years of relevant experience
• Strong mathematical foundation in machine learning and deep learning
• Expert programming skills in C, C++, and/or Python
• Familiarity with GPU computing (CUDA or similar) and HPC (MPI, OpenMP) stack
• Strong knowledge and coursework in computer architecture

Qualifications

• Background with systems-level performance modeling, profiling, and analysis
• Experience in characterizing and modeling system-level performance, accomplishing comparison studies, and documenting and publishing results
• Background in improving AI Inference workloads by developing CUDA kernels or compilers for custom ASIC hardware

Skills

• Passionate about AI efficiency Pareto curves
• Enthusiastic about optimizing every cycle

Benefits

• Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.
• The base salary range is $152,000 - $241,500 for Level 3, and $184,000 - $287,500 for Level 4.
• You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Pay

• Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.
• The base salary range is $152,000 - $241,500 for Level 3, and $184,000 - $287,500 for Level 4.

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Application Instructions

• Applications for this job will be accepted at least until July 5, 2026.