$165,000 - $250,000 USD yearly
About the role
Develop and optimize high-performance computing solutions for complex, computationally intensive applications.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and optimize high-performance software using C, C++, Python, and Linux-based development environments.
- Implement and optimize parallel computing algorithms for modern CPU and GPU architectures.
- Develop and optimize software using parallel programming models and hardware acceleration technologies, including OpenMP, CUDA, SIMD, SIMT, AVX, and SVE.
- Analyze application performance, identify computational bottlenecks, and improve execution speed, memory efficiency, and scalability.
- Develop and maintain HPC applications supporting computationally intensive workloads, including physics simulations, fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics, and scientific computing.
- Improve code generation, execution efficiency, and hardware utilization by working at the systems and compiler level.
What you'll need
- 5+ years of experience in HPC environments, such as supercomputing, financial technology (FinTech), national laboratories, or hyperscale computing.
- Expert-level proficiency in C, C++, Python, and Linux.
- Strong expertise with HPC software development tools, libraries, and frameworks, including OpenMP, TBB (oneTBB), and CMake.
- Applied experience with CPU/GPU computing architectures and optimization techniques, including CUDA, AVX, SIMD, and SIMT.
- Hands-on experience enabling software on GPUs and profiling, debugging, and optimizing computationally intensive applications.
- Experience with HPC use cases such as physics simulations, fluid dynamics, or molecular dynamics.
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or related field.
- Experience with Julia, assembly language, LLVM, compiler infrastructure, or compiler optimization.
- Experience developing software for supercomputers, large-scale compute clusters, or hyperscale infrastructure.
- Background in scientific computing, numerical methods, computational physics, fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics, or large-scale simulations.
- US Citizen.
Skills: HPC, CUDA, C/C++, OpenMP, GPU
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This role has been open 9 days — well below the 53-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
1022
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Median days open
53 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$236k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Bolt Graphics | All employers we track in this specialty (1022 roles · 93 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 1022 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 4 | 6531 · 156 employers |
| Median days open | 9 d | 53 d (−44 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: HPC, CUDA, C/C++, OpenMP, GPU
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 335 open roles · median 58 d
- AMD · 55 open roles · median 36 d
- Qualcomm · 55 open roles · median 61 d
- Graphcore · 48 open roles · median 101 d
- Intel Corporation · 38 open roles · median 24 d
- Arm Holdings · 37 open roles · median 11 d
How we counted: 1022 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 93 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 8 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.
