[Remote] DGX Cloud Performance Engineer - New Grad 2026

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NVIDIA is a leading technology company known for its advanced AI platforms. They are seeking a New Grad Performance Engineer to analyze, optimize, and model performance for DGX Cloud clusters, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance system performance and usability.

Responsibilities

• Develop benchmarks, end to end customer applications running at scale, instrumented for performance measurements, tracking, sampling, to measure and optimize performance of important applications and services
• Construct carefully designed experiments to analyze, study and develop critical insights into performance bottlenecks, dependencies, from an end to end perspective
• Develop ideas on how to improve the end to end system performance and usability by driving changes in the HW or SW (or both)
• Collaborate with AI researchers, developers, and application service providers to understand internal developer and external customer pain points, requirements, project future needs and share best practice
• Develop the necessary modeling framework and the TCO (total cost of ownership) analysis to enable efficient exploration and sweep of the architecture and design space
• Develop the methodology needed to drive the engineering analysis to Inform the architecture, design and roadmap of DGX Cloud

Skills

• Currently pursuing Masters or PhD in Engineering or equivalent experience (preferably, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science)
• Experience in working with large scale parallel and distributed accelerator-based system systems
• Experience optimizing performance and AI workloads on large scale systems
• Background with performance modeling and benchmarking at scale
• Background in Computer Architecture, Networking, Storage systems, Accelerators
• Familiarity with popular AI frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Megatron-LM, Tensort-LLM, VLLM) among others
• Experience with AI/ML models and workloads, in particular LLMs as well as an understanding of DNNs and their use in emerging AI/ML applications and service
• Proficiency in Python, C/C++
• Expertise with at least one of public CSP infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI, …)
• PhD in the relevant areas
• Very high intellectual curiosity; Confidence to dig in as needed; Not afraid of confronting complexity; Able to pick up new areas quickly
• Proficiency in CUDA, XLA
• Excellent interpersonal skills

Benefits

• Equity
• Benefits

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