Manager, Performance Engineering

Details

NVIDIA is looking for a Performance Engineering Manager to manage a team responsible for understanding, measuring, and improving performance across important computing platforms and workloads. The Performance Engineering organization works across Consumer and Enterprise products, AI workloads, Physical AI, Robotics, and other emerging areas. The role leads experienced performance engineers working at the intersection of hardware, software, applications, and system performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and grow a team of performance engineers responsible for benchmarking, performance characterization, data analysis, automation, and product readiness.
• Define performance priorities, methodologies, and execution plans while building relationships with engineering, product, and business teams across NVIDIA's global sites and time zones.
• Guide the development of benchmarks, workloads, test methodologies, and automation used to evaluate current and future NVIDIA platforms.
• Provide technical direction for complex performance investigations spanning GPUs, CPUs, memory, storage, networking, operating systems, drivers, applications, and AI workloads.
• Review performance data and methodologies to ensure results are accurate, reproducible, and supported by rigorous analysis.
• Drive investigations of performance regressions and opportunities, partnering across hardware and software teams to identify root causes and potential solutions.
• Translate complex performance results into clear conclusions and recommendations that influence product development, software optimization, competitive analysis, and future performance requirements.
• Coach and develop engineers while evolving Performance Engineering capabilities across Consumer, Enterprise, Physical AI, Robotics, and other emerging platforms and workloads.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of overall relevant experience in performance engineering, systems engineering, software engineering, computer architecture, or a related technical discipline, including 2+ years of management or technical leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing engineers while delivering complex technical projects across multiple teams.
• Strong understanding of computer systems and the interactions between hardware, software, operating systems, applications, and workloads.
• Experience with performance analysis, benchmarking, workload characterization, or system-level debugging.
• Strong technical judgment, with the ability to guide investigations, evaluate methodologies, and draw sound conclusions from complex or incomplete data.
• Familiarity with scripting or software development for automation, data analysis, or engineering tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across organizations, geographic locations, and time zones and communicate complex technical findings to engineering teams, business partners, and senior leaders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on performance engineering experience, including benchmarking, analysis, debugging, automation, and performance investigations.
• Experience with GPUs, accelerated computing, AI workloads, graphics, professional visualization, Physical AI, Robotics, or high-performance computing.
• Deep understanding of GPU architecture, computer architecture, and system-level performance bottlenecks.
• Experience developing benchmark methodologies, performance automation, or large-scale performance data and analysis pipelines.
• Experience working with preproduction hardware and translating performance analysis into product recommendations or longer-term engineering priorities.

Benefits

NVIDIA offers competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package, equity, and benefits for employees and their families. The base salary is determined based on location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

Applications will be accepted at least until October 17, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.