NVIDIA · 7 hours ago
Senior Performance Architect - Heterogeneous Workload Optimization
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$184K/yr - $356K/yr
8+ years expNVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. They are seeking a Senior Performance Architect to build next generation profiling infrastructure for EDA workloads, focusing on optimizing interactions between design graphs and GPU kernels.
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Responsibilities
Architecting and maintaining custom profiling frameworks that provide a unified view of execution across CPU (multi-core/multi-socket) and GPU (multi-node/NVLink) environments
Conducting deep-dive benchmarking of EDA applications to characterize memory access patterns, cache hit rates, and instruction-level parallelism
Using GPU profilers to detect GPU-side inefficiencies such as warp divergence, sub-optimal occupancy, and PCIe/NVLink bottlenecks
Developing tools to monitor and attribute high-watermark memory usage in multi-terabyte EDA builds, finding opportunities for data structure compression or smarter memory pooling
Developing predictive models to guide hardware procurement and cloud instance selection based on built gate-count and algorithmic complexity
Qualification
Required
A grasp of the CUDA programming model and experience employing GPU profiling tools like NVIDIA Nsight Systems/Compute to address PCIe bottlenecks and kernel stalls
Extensive knowledge of profiling tools such as perf, eBPF, VTune, or Valgrind, along with insight into their internal mechanisms
A passion for meticulous benchmarking and the ability to distill sophisticated performance data into actionable engineering roadmaps
Experience with distributed compute environments (Slurm, LSF, or Kubernetes)
A BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience) with more than 8+yrs of relevant experience and at least 5 years involved in systems-level performance analysis
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