Senior Performance Architect, Nemotron

About the role

We are now looking for a Senior Performance Architect for Nemotron! At NVIDIA, we are redefining the future of AI systems through deep model–system–hardware co-design. We are looking for a forward-thinking Nemotron Performance Architect to shape the next generation of Nemotron models through performance modeling, analysis, and forward projections.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-fidelity analytical performance models to prototype emerging algorithmic techniques & hardware optimizations to drive model-hardware co-design Nemotron family of models.
• Prioritize features to guide future software and hardware roadmap based on detailed performance modeling and analysis.
• Model end-to-end performance impact of emerging GenAI workflows - such as Speculative Decoding, Agentic Pipelines, Inference-time compute scaling, RL etc. – to understand future datacenter needs.
• Collaborate with diverse teams, including DL researchers, hardware architects, and software engineers to keep up with the latest DL research.

Requirements

• A minimum qualification of a Master's degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields.
• Strong background in computer architecture, roofline modeling, queuing theory and statistical performance analysis techniques.
• Solid understanding of ML fundamentals, model parallelism and inference serving techniques.
• Proficiency in Python (and optionally C++) for simulator design and data analysis.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in system evaluation of AI/ML workloads or performance analysis, modeling and optimizations for AI.
• Comfortable defining metrics, designing experiments and visualizing large performance datasets to identify resource bottlenecks.
• Experience with deep learning frameworks like PyTorch, TRT-LLM, VLLM, SGLang.
• A Growth mindset and pragmatic “measure, iterate, deliver” approach.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of working in multi-functional teams, spanning algorithms, software and hardware architecture.
• Ability to distill complex analyses into clear recommendations for both technical and non-technical collaborators.
• Experience with GPU computing (CUDA).

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 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3, and 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Pay

The base salary range is 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3, and 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4.

Schedule

N/A

Application Instructions

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until May 23, 2026.