Senior Engineer, Performance - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$136,000 - $212,750 USD yearly
Originally posted 23 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Performance Engineer, you will work on advancing the limits of technology, playing a crucial role in crafting future products and influencing key business decisions at NVIDIA.
What you'll do
- Provide competitive and internal data analysis to set industry performance expectations and support new product initiatives.
- Bring-up, maintain, and debug pre-production, reference, and consumer hardware.
- Run performance, image quality, and power tests of Professional Visualization, AI, and LLM benchmark applications on various GPUs.
- Develop and maintain Python-based automation scripts and tools to streamline benchmarking procedures.
- Design new tools and create efficient processes to improve benchmarking analysis and reporting workflows.
- Analyze and validate results from test runs and craft reports for various internal groups.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a technical or business marketing field with 5+ years of experience.
- Knowledge of Enterprise Workstation/AI/LLM application benchmarking fundamentals, performance analysis, and competitive data comparisons.
- Deep understanding of 3D application performance testing methods and techniques.
- Excellent programming and debugging skills in a scripting language, Python preferred.
- Expert knowledge of hardware & PC components to identify and root-cause performance bottlenecks.
Nice to have
- Experience in benchmarking and competitive analysis.
- Experience with LLM development and deployment.
- Knowledge of NVIDIA hardware and NVIDIA software products.
Skills: performance analysis, benchmarking, Python scripting, GPU performance, hardware components
This role has been open 16 days — well below the 59-day median for Systems Software Engineering roles.
Systems Software Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
683
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Median days open
59 d
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Median salary
$213k
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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 (683 roles · 73 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 129 | 683 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 952 | 6035 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 51 d | 59 d (−8 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $213k |
Skills observed across this category: performance analysis, benchmarking, Python scripting, GPU performance, hardware components
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 169 open roles · median 74 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 128 open roles · median 51 d
- AMD · 59 open roles · median 50 d
- Mobileye · 29 open roles · median 73 d
- Broadcom · 22 open roles · median 45 d
- Arm Holdings · 20 open roles · median 107 d
How we counted: 683 open Systems Software Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 73 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 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.