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Principal High-Performance LLM Training Engineer
NVIDIA
US, CA, Santa Clara · On-site · relocation$22,667–35,938 gross/mofull-timeNVIDIA Careers (offices abroad)
NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Engineer to drive the performance of large-scale AI training and post-training workloads across NVIDIA’s full hardware and software stack. This role sits at the intersection of distributed training, GPU architecture, systems software, deep learning frameworks, and performance engineering.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end performance analysis and optimization of innovative LLM pre-training and post-training workloads on the latest NVIDIA hardware and software platforms.
- Drive workloads closer to speed-of-light performance by identifying and removing bottlenecks across compute, memory, communication, scheduling, parallelism strategy, kernel efficiency, framework overhead, and system-level scaling.
- Develop production-quality software, tools, models, benchmarks, and analysis infrastructure that improve training performance, efficiency, and developer velocity across NVIDIA’s AI software stack.
- Build and refine performance models, workload characterizations, and simulation methodologies to guide future GPU, networking, system, and software architecture decisions.
- Translate workload insights into concrete hardware and software recommendations, and advocate for changes that improve performance and efficiency across the AI ecosystem.
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- 28 Apr 2026
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