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Lead Software Systems Engineer - GPU Performance

Nebius Remote - United States Remote senior full-time

Salary

$170,000-$300,000 USD per year

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Description

We are looking for a Lead Software Systems Engineer - GPU Performance to play a key role in building our hyperscaler platform, working across its core components while analyzing and optimizing the performance of large-scale GPU clusters at the intersection of hardware and software.

You will operate across the full stack,from hardware and system software to networking (InfiniBand/RoCE), virtualization (KVM/QEMU), and distributed communication layers (e.g., MPI, NCCL).

In this role, you will:

  • Focus on understanding system behavior across multiple layers, identifying performance bottlenecks, and driving improvements that shape how our clusters are built, operated, tuned, and validated.
  • Investigate and troubleshoot performance issues of GPU cluster under real workloads (training and inference)
  • Evaluate and integrate new hardware, system configurations, and tuning approaches through software stack
  • Support complex performance-related escalations from internal teams and customers
  • Work closely with infrastructure, software engineering, and hardware vendor teams (e.g., NVIDIA, Mellanox, Intel)
  • Contribute to hardware and cluster qualification (acceptance), ensuring systems meet performance expectations

We expect you to have:

  • 5+ years of professional experience in system-level software development (focused on performance optimization, low-level programming).
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with Linux systems (administration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning).
  • In-depth understanding of server architecture, including PCIe devices, NICs, Linux OS/Kernel, and high-performance computing (HPC) systems.
  • Strong proficiency in one or more performance-oriented programming languages (C/C++, Go, Python).

Key employee benefits:

  • Health insurance: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
  • 401(k) plan: Up to 4% company match with immediate vesting.
  • Parental leave: 20 weeks paid for primary caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers.
  • Remote work reimbursement: Up to $85/month for mobile and internet.
  • Disability & life insurance: Company-paid short-term, long-term, and life insurance coverage.

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