Senior HPC Performance Engineer

at Nvidia
📍 World
📍 Germany
PLN 221,200-507,000 per year
SENIOR
✅ Remote

Used Tools & Technologies

AI

Required Skills & Competences

Ansible @ 3 Docker @ 3 Kubernetes @ 3 Python @ 6 TensorFlow @ 4 Communication @ 4 Networking @ 4 Parallel Programming @ 6 Debugging @ 4 System Architecture @ 4 PyTorch @ 4 CUDA @ 3 GPU @ 4 Deep Learning @ 4 InfiniBand @ 4 NCCL @ 4 Slurm @ 3 HPC @ 4 NVLink @ 4

Details

NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High Performance Computing and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars.

Come work for the team that brought to you NCCL, NVSHMEM & GPUDirect. Our GPU communication libraries are crucial for scaling Deep Learning and HPC applications. We are looking for a motivated Performance Engineer to influence the roadmap of our communication libraries. The DL and HPC applications of today have a huge compute demand and run on scales which go up to tens of thousands of GPUs. The GPUs are connected with high-speed interconnects (eg. NVLink, PCIe) within a node and with high-speed networking (eg. InfiniBand, Ethernet) across the nodes. Communication performance between the GPUs has a direct impact on the end-to-end application performance; and the stakes are even higher at huge scales.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct in-depth performance characterization and analysis on large multi-GPU and multi-node clusters.
  • Study the interaction of our libraries with all HW (GPU, CPU, Networking) and SW components in the stack.
  • Evaluate proof-of-concepts and conduct trade-off analysis when multiple solutions are available.
  • Triage and root-cause performance issues reported by customers.
  • Collect large volumes of performance data; build tools and infrastructure to visualize and analyze the information.
  • Collaborate with a dynamic team across multiple time zones.

Requirements

  • M.S. (or equivalent experience) or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field with relevant performance engineering and HPC experience.
  • 3+ years of experience with parallel programming and at least one communication runtime (MPI, NCCL, UCX, NVSHMEM).
  • Experience conducting performance benchmarking and triage on large-scale HPC clusters.
  • Good understanding of computer system architecture, HW–SW interactions and operating systems principles (systems software fundamentals).
  • Ability to implement micro-benchmarks in C/C++ and read/modify code when required.
  • Ability to debug performance issues across the entire HW/SW stack. Proficient in a scripting language, preferably Python.
  • Familiarity with containers, cloud provisioning and scheduling tools (Kubernetes, SLURM, Ansible, Docker).
  • Adaptability and passion to learn new areas and tools. Flexibility to work and communicate effectively across different teams and timezones.

Ways to stand out

  • Practical experience with InfiniBand/Ethernet networks in areas like RDMA, topologies, congestion control.
  • Experience debugging network issues in large-scale deployments.
  • Familiarity with CUDA programming and/or GPUs.
  • Experience with Deep Learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.

Compensation

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. For Poland: The base salary range is 221,250 PLN - 383,500 PLN for Level 3, and 292,500 PLN - 507,000 PLN for Level 4.

Other

Location: Germany and Remote. Employment type: Full time. Start date listed: 2026-01-09.

NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion and offers competitive salaries and an extensive benefits package.