Senior Accelerated Computing Architect
$184,000 - $287,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 30 October 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 31 October 2026.
About the role
You will perform in-depth analysis and performance optimization on NVIDIA GPUs while guiding software-hardware co-design.
What you'll do
- Perform in-depth analysis and optimization to ensure optimal performance on NVIDIA GPUs.
- Create and optimize core parallel algorithms, data structures, and reference codes for NVIDIA GPUs.
- Analyze the interplay of hardware and software architectures on core algorithms, programming models, and applications.
- Document and present work through white papers, conference publications, blog posts, and patent applications.
What you'll need
- MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of relevant work experience.
- Strong mathematical fundamentals, including linear algebra and numerical methods.
- Hands-on experience with massively parallel GPU programming models such as CUDA or OpenCL.
- Strong knowledge of C and C++ with understanding of software design, programming techniques, and algorithms.
- Experience benchmarking, profiling, and characterizing workloads on GPU and CPU clusters.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with APIs for multi-node communication, like MPI or OpenSHMEM/NVSHMEM.
- Familiarity with threading APIs for multicore CPUs and Unix-style Inter-process Communication (IPC) APIs.
- Familiarity with Python.
Skills: accelerated computing, GPU programming, CUDA, parallel algorithms, performance optimization
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This role has been open 176 days — well above the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
989
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Median days open
50 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$229k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (989 roles · 90 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 302 | 989 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 1117 | 6358 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 54 d | 50 d (+4 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: accelerated computing, GPU programming, CUDA, parallel algorithms, performance optimization
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 285 open roles · median 51 d
- Qualcomm · 59 open roles · median 53 d
- AMD · 49 open roles · median 30 d
- Graphcore · 49 open roles · median 106 d
- Intel Corporation · 44 open roles · median 16 d
- Arm Holdings · 36 open roles · median 3 d
How we counted: 989 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 90 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 31 Oct 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.