Senior Application Perf Architect

NVIDIA has continuously reinvented itself over two decades. Our invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing.NVIDIA is a “learning machine” that constantly evolves by adapting to new opportunities which are hard to seek, which only we can pursue, and which matter to the world. This is our life’s work: to amplify human inventiveness and intelligence. NVIDIA is now driving innovation at the intersection of visual processing, high performance computing and artificial intelligence. We are looking for passionate, highly motivated, creative engineers to be part of our HW architecture team. As part of this team, you will be paving the path for real time rendering of some of the most complex and compute intensive visualization techniques by improving next generation GPU performance.What you'll be doing:Game Performance Analysis spanning CPU (OS, Driver) through GPU (HW Performance) limiters Active debug, prototyping (DirectX C++/DXIL/DXBC/HLSL) and development of performance ideas that can be brought to production with:Game Changes Driver Changes HW Features (for upcoming architecture) Content analysis (game engines/games) to catch competitive and performance issues at early stages, feeding performance optimizations back into content/driver/hardware.What we need to see:BE/BTech or MS/MTech in relevant area, or equivalent experience.Strong computer architecture and performance analysis basics.3+ years of experience with performance analysis or GPU driver experience.Hands on experience with DirectX and DXIL (LLVM) and an expertise with DirectX API in general is a plus.NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you're creative, autonomous and love a challenge, we want to hear from you. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.