# Senior Performance Architect

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are now looking for a Senior Performance Architect to shape the next generation of Nemotron models through performance modeling, analysis, and forward projections. In this role, you will predict before we build - developing high-fidelity models to evaluate how architectural choices translate into real-world deployment efficiency.

Recent efforts such as LatentMoE architectures and the Nemotron Super model exemplify the kind of performance-driven co-design you will help advance,where modeling insights directly shape model architecture and system efficiency at scale. This role sits at the center of Generative AI evolution, partnering across research, framework development, compiler, and hardware teams to guide decisions that determine how efficiently intelligence scales in production.

**Responsibilities:**

- Develop high-fidelity analytical performance models to prototype emerging algorithmic techniques & hardware optimizations to drive model-hardware co-design Nemotron family of models.

- Prioritize features to guide future software and hardware roadmap based on detailed performance modeling and analysis

- Model end-to-end performance impact of emerging GenAI workflows - such as Speculative Decoding, Agentic Pipelines, Inference-time compute scaling, RL etc. – to understand future datacenter needs

**Requirements:**

- A minimum qualification of a Master's degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields.

- Strong background in computer architecture, roofline modeling, queuing theory and statistical performance analysis techniques.

- Solid understanding of ML fundamentals, model parallelism and inference serving techniques.

- Proficiency in Python (and optionally C++) for simulator design and data analysis.

- 3+ years of hands-on experience in system evaluation of AI/ML workloads or performance analysis, modeling and optimizations for AI.

- Comfortable defining metrics, designing experiments and visualizing large performance datasets to identify resource bottlenecks.

- Experience with deep learning frameworks like PyTorch, TRT-LLM, VLLM, SGLang

**Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd:**

- Proven track record of working in multi-functional teams, spanning algorithms, software and hardware architecture.

- Ability to distill complex analyses into clear recommendations for both technical and non-technical collaborators.

- Experience with GPU computing (CUDA)

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- C++
- PyTorch
- TRT-LLM
- VLLM
- SGLang
- GPU computing
- Computer architecture
- Roofline modeling
- Queuing theory
- Statistical performance analysis
- ML fundamentals
- Model parallelism
- Inference serving

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