NVIDIA · 4 days ago
Developer Technology Engineer, High-Performance Databases – New College Grad 2025
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
New Grad, Entry Level
$120K/yr - $190K/yrNVIDIA is a leader in visual and AI computing, known for its pioneering work in GPU technology. They are seeking a Developer Technology Engineer to research and develop techniques for GPU-accelerating high-performance databases and data analytics applications, collaborating with other experts to optimize performance and influence the design of future hardware architectures.
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Responsibilities
In this role, you will research and develop techniques to GPU-accelerate high performance database, ETL and data analytics applications
Work directly with other technical experts in their fields (industry and academia) to perform in-depth analysis and optimization of complex data intensive workloads to ensure the best possible performance of current GPU architectures
Influence the design of next-generation hardware architectures, software, and programming models in collaboration with research, hardware, system software, libraries, and tools teams at NVIDIA
Qualification
Required
Pursuing or recently completed Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related computationally focused science degree or equivalent experience
Programming fluency in C/C++ with a deep understanding of algorithms and software design
Hands-on experience with low-level parallel programming, e.g. CUDA (preferred), OpenACC, OpenMP, MPI, pthreads, TBB, etc
In-depth expertise with CPU/GPU architecture fundamentals, especially memory subsystem
Domain expertise in high performance databases, ETL, data analytics and/or vector database
Good communication and organization skills, with a logical approach to problem solving, and prioritization skills
Preferred
Experience optimizing/implementing database operators or query planner, especially for parallel or distributed frameworks (e.g. production database or Spark)
Experience optimizing vector database index build and/or search
Experience profiling and optimizing CUDA kernels
Background with compression, storage systems, networking, and distributed computer architectures
Benefits
Equity
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Company
NVIDIA
NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.
Founded in 1993
10001+ employees
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Funding
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$4.09BKey Investors
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Founder and CEO
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Chief Technology Officer
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