Developer Technology Engineer, High-Performance Databases New College Grad 2025

$120,000 - $230,000/Yr

Nvidia - Santa Clara, CA

Full-time - Entry Level

Santa Clara, CA

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Developer Technology Engineer for High-Performance Databases at NVIDIA is responsible for researching and developing techniques to GPU-accelerate high-performance database and ETL applications. This role involves collaborating with technical experts to analyze and optimize complex data-intensive workloads, ensuring optimal performance on current GPU architectures, and influencing the design of next-generation hardware and software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop techniques to GPU-accelerate high-performance database and ETL applications.
• Collaborate with technical experts in industry and academia to analyze and optimize complex data-intensive workloads.
• Influence the design of next-generation hardware architectures, software, and programming models in collaboration with various teams at NVIDIA.

Requirements

• Pursuing a Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related computationally focused science degree (or equivalent experience).
• Programming fluency in C/C++ with a deep understanding of algorithms and software design.
• Hands-on experience with low-level parallel programming (e.g., CUDA, OpenACC, OpenMP, MPI, pthreads, TBB).
• In-depth expertise with CPU/GPU architecture fundamentals, especially memory subsystems.
• Domain expertise in high-performance databases, ETL, and data analytics.
• Good communication and organization skills, with a logical approach to problem-solving and prioritization.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience optimizing the performance of distributed database systems and frameworks (e.g., production database or Spark).
• Background with compression, storage systems, networking, and distributed computing architectures.

Benefits

• Equity options
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Paid time off
• Flexible work hours
• Professional development opportunities