# Principal Software Engineer, E2E Performance and Goodput — CSP Engagements

We're looking for a Principal Engineer to join our CSP Engagements team as the technical focal point for end-to-end performance, working directly with engineering teams of key CSP/hyperscale customers to ensure they achieve various performance targets on NVIDIA platforms. In this role, you will augment NVIDIA's performance and benchmark teams with a dedicated CSP-facing focus. You will drive work streams with CSP engineering teams to build shared understanding of platform performance characteristics, gather and incorporate their workload-specific feedback into NVIDIA's optimization priorities, and validate that performance targets are met in customer-representative configurations. Your cross-CSP visibility enables you to identify patterns and drive systemic improvements in documentation, configuration guidance, and tooling. What you'll be doing: Drive performance characterization work streams with engineering teams of key CSP/hyperscale customers - ensuring they understand platform performance expectations, profiling methodology, and tuning options for their specific workloads Gather and synthesize CSP performance feedback - identify gaps between expected and actual throughput, an

- **Id**: 102167
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nvidia-principal-software-engineer-e2e-performance-and-goodput-csp-engagements>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, United States, Austin, United States, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-12T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-07
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T20:35:34Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 88
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5226
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Processors, MCUs & AI Chips, Servers & Data Center Hardware, Computer Components, AI Chips & Accelerators

## Company

- **Id**: 6
- **Name**: NVIDIA
- **Domain**: nvidia.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nvidia>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 794
- **Ghost share**: 0.025
- **Stale share**: 0.594
- **Repost share**: 0.055
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 41
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 272000
- **Max**: 431250
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 431250

## Technologies

- **CUDA** — Optional: no
- **DeepSpeed** — Optional: no
- **FSDP** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **Megatron-LM** — Optional: no
- **NCCL** — Optional: no
- **NVLink** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SGLang** — Optional: no
- **TensorRT-LLM** — Optional: no
- **vLLM** — Optional: no
- **TensorRT** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 88

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-08-12T00:00:00Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-09-25T02:47:33Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-07T18:38:54Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2,856 · green card filings: 799; Filings 12m: 2856

## Liveness

- **Score**: 14
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.496
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 88
- **Expected fill days**: 41
- **Reasons**: conf:6, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 431250
- **Is top pay**: yes

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