Senior AI Performance and Efficiency Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA +1 · Remote

Senior AI/ML Performance and Efficiency Engineer focused on optimizing GPU cluster performance for AI/ML researchers by addressing infrastructure and application bottlenecks. This role involves building tools, analyzing efficiency, and collaborating across teams to improve hardware, software, and infrastructure usage for various ML workloads like Robotics, Autonomous vehicles, LLMs, and Videos.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate closely with our AI/ML researchers to make their ML models more efficient leading to significant productivity improvements and cost savings
  2. Build tools, frameworks, and apply ML techniques to detect & analyze efficiency bottlenecks and deliver productivity improvements for our researchers
  3. Work with researchers working on a variety of innovative ML workloads across Robotics, Autonomous vehicles, LLM’s, Videos and more
  4. Collaborate across the engineering organizations to deliver efficiency in our usage of hardware, software, and infrastructure
  5. Proactively monitor fleet wide utilization patterns, analyze existing inefficiency patterns, or discover new patterns, and deliver scalable solutions to solve them

Skills

Required

  • BS or similar background in Computer Science or related area (or equivalent experience)
  • Minimum 5+ years of experience designing and operating large scale compute infrastructure
  • Strong understanding of modern ML techniques and tools
  • Experience investigating, and resolving, training & inference performance end to end
  • Debugging and optimization experience with NSight Systems and NSight Compute
  • Experience with debugging large-scale distributed training using NCCL
  • Proficiency in programming & scripting languages such as Python, Go, Bash
  • Familiarity with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Experience with parallel computing frameworks and paradigms
  • Dedication to ongoing learning and staying updated on new technologies and innovative methods in the AI/ML infrastructure sector.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Nice to have

  • Background with NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA Programming, NCCL and MLPerf benchmarking
  • Experience with Machine Learning and Deep Learning concepts, algorithms and models
  • Familiarity with InfiniBand with IBOP and RDMA
  • Understanding of fast, distributed storage systems like Lustre and GPFS for AI/HPC workloads
  • Familiarity with deep learning frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow

What the JD emphasized

  • Minimum 5+ years of experience designing and operating large scale compute infrastructure
  • Experience investigating, and resolving, training & inference performance end to end
  • Dedication to ongoing learning and staying updated on new technologies and innovative methods in the AI/ML infrastructure sector.

Other signals

  • Enhancing efficiency for researchers
  • Implementing progressions throughout the entire stack
  • Pinpoint and address infrastructure and application deficiencies
  • Facilitating groundbreaking AI and ML research on GPU Clusters
  • Craft potent, effective, and scalable solutions