Senior Developer Technology Engineer, High-Performance Databases

NVIDIA • Santa Clara, CA

113d • $148,000 - $287,500

About The Position

NVIDIA is currently seeking a Senior Developer Technology Engineer for High-Performance Databases! Would you enjoy researching new algorithms and memory management techniques to accelerate databases on modern computer architectures? Do you like investigating hardware and system bottlenecks, and optimizing performance of data intensive applications? Are you excited about the opportunity to work on the leading edge of technology with both visibility and impact to the success of a leader like NVIDIA? If so, the Developer Technology Team invites you to consider this opportunity.

Requirements

• A Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related computationally focused science degree (or equivalent experience).
• At least 5+ 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, etc.
• In-depth expertise with CPU/GPU architecture fundamentals, especially memory subsystem.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop techniques to GPU-accelerate high performance database and ETL applications.
• Work directly with other technical experts in their fields (industry and academia) to perform in-depth analysis and optimization of complex data intensive workloads.
• Ensure the best possible performance of current GPU architectures.
• Influence the design of next-generation hardware architectures, software, and programming models in collaboration with research, hardware, system software, libraries, and tools teams at NVIDIA.

Benefits

• Equity and benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Master's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees