# Performance Engineering Manager

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 200,000 CAD - 250,000 CAD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Performance Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on understanding, measuring, and improving performance across various computing platforms and workloads. The successful candidate will have a strong technical background and experience in managing a team of performance engineers.

**Job Summary:** As a Performance Engineering Manager at NVIDIA, you will lead a team of experienced performance engineers working at the intersection of hardware, software, applications, and system performance. You will help establish performance priorities and methodologies, guide complex technical investigations, and ensure performance results provide clear and actionable insights to engineering, product, and business teams.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead, develop, and grow a team of performance engineers responsible for benchmarking, performance characterisation, data analysis, automation, and product readiness.

- Define performance priorities, methodologies, and execution plans while building strong working relationships with engineering, product, and business teams.

- 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 methodology 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 optimisation, 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+ overall years of 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 characterisation, or system-level debugging.

- Strong technical judgment with the ability to guide investigations, evaluate methodology, 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 demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across organisations, geographic locations, and time zones, and communicate complex technical findings to engineering teams, business partners, and senior leaders.

**Benefits:**

- Highly competitive salary

- Comprehensive benefits package

- Equity

**Salary Range:** 200,000 CAD - 250,000 CAD

## Skills

### Required
- performance engineering
- systems engineering
- software engineering
- computer architecture
- benchmarking
- performance analysis
- data analysis
- automation
- scripting
- software development

### Nice to have
- GPU architecture
- accelerated computing
- AI workloads
- graphics
- professional visualisation
- Physical AI
- Robotics
- high-performance computing

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