Senior Developer Technology Engineer, High-Performance Databases

$180,000 - $339,250/Yr

Nvidia - Santa Clara, CA

Full-time - Senior

Santa Clara, CA

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Senior Developer Technology Engineer for High-Performance Databases at NVIDIA focuses on 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.
• Perform in-depth analysis and optimization of complex data-intensive workloads.
• Collaborate with research, hardware, system software, libraries, and tools teams to influence the design of next-generation hardware architectures and programming models.

Requirements

• A Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related computationally focused science degree (or equivalent experience).
• At least 6+ years of relevant work or research 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 skills.

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 computer architectures.

Benefits

• Equity and benefits eligibility.