Senior Performance Engineer - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$136,000 - $270,250 USD yearly
Originally posted 17 September 2026 by the employer — open 3 days.
About the role
This role involves performance analysis and competitive data analysis across Enterprise business units, supporting new product initiatives and influencing business decisions. The position focuses on bringing up and debugging pre-production hardware, running performance tests on Professional Visualization, AI, and LLM benchmark applications on various GPUs.
What you'll do
- Provide competitive and internal data analysis to Enterprise business units.
- 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 GPUs.
- Develop and maintain Python-based automation scripts and tools for benchmarking.
- 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 groups.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) with 5+ years of experience in a technical or business marketing field.
- 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.
- 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, pre-production hardware, GPU, Python automation, LLM applications
This role has been open 2 days — well below the 57-day median for Product Engineering roles.
Product Engineering · Silicon Validation
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Open roles in category
38
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Median days open
57 d
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Median salary
$190k
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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 (38 roles · 16 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 6 | 38 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 99 | 2024 · 111 employers |
| Median days open | 22 d | 57 d (−35 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $190k |
Skills observed across this category: performance analysis, benchmarking, pre-production hardware, GPU, Python automation, LLM applications
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 6 open roles · median 30 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 6 open roles · median 22 d
- Intel Corporation · 3 open roles · median 54 d
- Microchip Technology · 3 open roles · median 80 d
- Micron Technology · 3 open roles · median 74 d
- onsemi · 3 open roles · median 101 d
How we counted: 38 open Product Engineering (Silicon Validation) roles from 16 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 20 Sept 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 Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.