Tech Stack
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About proficiency levels:
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
AI @ 4
Algorithms @ 7
CUDA @ 6
Data Science @ 6
Data Structures @ 7
Deep Learning @ 6
GPU
Graph Theory
HPC @ 4
MPI @ 6
Machine Learning @ 6
Parallel Programming @ 6
Profiling @ 4
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Details
NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Developer Technology Engineer to join its Public Sector Developer Technology team. The role focuses on researching and developing techniques to GPU-accelerate applications in the federal ecosystem, including computational fluid dynamics, electronic design automation, graph theory, weather and climate modeling, and AI in high-performance computing. You will perform in-depth analysis and optimization for current and next-generation GPU architectures.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with key application developers to understand current and future challenges.
- Craft and optimize core parallel algorithms and data structures for GPU-based solutions.
- Develop reference code and contribute directly to the full software stack, including libraries and applications.
- Collaborate with NVIDIA architecture, research, libraries, tools, and system software teams.
- Investigate the impact of architectures, software, and programming models on application performance and developer productivity.
- Attend conferences and occasional on-site visits with developers.
Requirements
- MS or PhD degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, or another STEM field.
- Fluency in C/C++ with a deep understanding of software design, programming techniques, and algorithms.
- 5+ years of relevant experience with parallel programming, ideally involving CUDA C/C++, OpenMP, MPI, or SHMEM, including OpenSHMEM or NVSHMEM.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, ideally including parallel data structures and algorithms, combinatorics, and sparse representations.
- Passion for optimizing code through parallel programming.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience optimizing complex code, particularly for GPUs, including kernel optimization and understanding how software runs on hardware.
- Background in algorithm and architecture codesign.
- Domain expertise in electronic design automation, high-performance computing, computational fluid dynamics, data and graph analytics, data science, network analysis, machine learning, or deep learning.
- Experience profiling and optimizing applications and frameworks with Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute.
- Experience developing or optimizing workflows involving HPC and AI models.
Benefits
- Equity and benefits are available.
- NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse work environment.
- The position is hybrid.
Applications for this existing vacancy will be accepted at least until April 13, 2026. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.
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