NVIDIA

AI

EngineeringManager,InferenceBenchmarking

$224–357k Santa Clara, California, United States FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Engineering Manager, Inference Benchmarking at NVIDIA. Skills: Inference Benchmarking, LLM Inference, Kubernetes, Open-source. Drive technical roadmap for AIPerf core infrastructure. Manage load generation and microservices”

What You'll Achieve.

AIPerf becomes leading benchmarking tool; Inform production infrastructure decisions; Optimize costs; Reduce latency; Improve efficiency; Scale inference

Industry & Context.

AI
Problems you'll solve

Reason about measurement correctness and reproducibility

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience, 8+ overall years of software engineering experience building performance-critical infrastructure, ML tooling, or distributed systems, 3+ years of engineering leadership experience as a tech lead, TLM, or engineering manager, Deep understanding of LLM inference mechanics — TTFT, ITL, KV caching, Prefill/Decode, speculative decoding — and the ability to reason about measurement correctness and reproducibility, Proven track record of collaborating across multi-functional groups and delivering production-quality output in high-velocity, high-external-visibility environments

Nice to Have

Extensive experience with vLLM, TRT-LLM or SGLang internals along with contributions to their upstream projects, Experience building Kubernetes-native infrastructure including operators, Helm charts, and GPU observability tooling (DCGM, dcgm-exporter, PyNVML), Background in competitive benchmarking frameworks such as MLPerf or equivalent industry-standard evaluation systems, History leading or making meaningful contributions to active open-source projects with external communities

What You'll Do.

Drive technical roadmap for AIPerf core infrastructure

Manage load generation and microservices

Oversee GPU telemetry and deployment

Ensure accuracy of benchmark results

Advise on upstream engine integrations

Maintain AIPerf relevance

Hire and mentor senior engineers

Grow team in open-source environment

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborating across multi-functional groups; Partnership with NVIDIA's Dynamo and NIM teams; Working in a high-velocity open-source environment with active external contributors

Full Job Description

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s an outstanding legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people. Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Come join the team and see how you can make a lasting impact on the world. NVIDIA’s open-source benchmarking platform, AIPerf, is the growing standard for assessing LLM serving performance across various inference frameworks. Hyperscalers, cloud providers, and enterprises use AIPerf to inform decisions on production inference. This includes choosing GPUs, optimizing costs, reducing latency, improving efficiency, and scaling. As Technical Lead Manager, you will lead the engineering team within NVIDIA’s Dynamo organization. Your responsibility is to build and advance the platform so AIPerf becomes the leading benchmarking tool for datacenter, local, and edge use cases. This span LLM, multimodal, diffusion, and computer vision inference. This position combines hands-on leadership with expertise in systems engineering, inference infrastructure, and open-source communities. It has a direct effect on how AI performance is measured and pushed forward. **What you 'll be doing:** * Driving the technical roadmap for AIPerf's core infrastructure: load generation, ZMQ-based microservices, GPU telemetry (DCGM/PyNVML, Prometheus metrics, statistical confidence intervals, and Kubernetes-native deployment. * Taking ownership for the accuracy and statistical soundness of benchmark results that engineering groups throughout the industry depend on to inform production i

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