Senior Software Engineer, Agent Performance Modeling - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$184,000 - $287,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 12 August 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on agentic methods to streamline simulation, evaluation, and critical engineering workflows for the LPU organization.
About the role
This role involves developing and optimizing AI systems through simulation, evaluation, and performance analysis. The work focuses on agentic methods to streamline engineering workflows for the LPU organization.
What you'll do
- Build agentic systems that automate simulation, evaluation, performance analysis, and reporting. - Develop tools that configure experiments, run evaluations, analyze results, identify regressions, and recommend follow-up work. - Analyze the inference characteristics of LLMs, reasoning models, coding agents, multimodal models, and agentic harnesses. - Build and validate performance models for GPU, LPU, and heterogeneous GPU–LPU systems. - Automate LPU workflows such as benchmarking, workload characterization, capacity planning, and release qualification.
What you'll need
- Strong experience building AI agents or AI-backed engineering systems. - Familiarity with modern model architectures and AI inference workloads. - Experience evaluating AI models or agents and analyzing performance. - Experience with simulation, profiling, benchmarking, or performance modelling. - Strong Python skills and experience building reliable engineering tools. - MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience. - 5+ years of relevant software development experience. - 2 years of experience building AI agents or building AI-backed engineering systems.
Skills: AI agents, simulation, evaluation, performance analysis, GPU, LPU
This role has been open 65 days — slightly above the 57-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
99
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Median days open
57 d
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Median salary
$220k
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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 (99 roles · 29 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 18 | 99 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 973 | 6114 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 53 d | 57 d (−4 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $220k |
Skills observed across this category: AI agents, simulation, evaluation, performance analysis, GPU, LPU
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 22 open roles · median 54 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 19 open roles · median 54 d
- AMD · 7 open roles · median 46 d
- Intel Corporation · 7 open roles · median 24 d
- Micron Technology · 6 open roles · median 40 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 5 open roles · median 45 d
How we counted: 99 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (AI ML Hardware) roles from 29 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 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.