Developer Technology Engineer, High-Performance Databases – New College Grad 2026

Location: US, CA, Santa Clara

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Our work at NVIDIA is dedicated towards a computing model focused on visual and AI computing. For two decades, NVIDIA has pioneered visual computing, the art and science of computer graphics, with our invention of the GPU. The GPU has also shown to be spectacularly effective at solving some of the most complex problems in computer science. Today, NVIDIA’s GPU simulates human intelligence, running deep learning algorithms and acting as the brain of computers, robots and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. We are looking to grow our company and teams with the smartest people in the world and there has never been a more exciting time to join our team! 

NVIDIA is currently seeking a 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 top tier 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.

What you will be doing:

• In this role, you will research and develop techniques to GPU-accelerate high performance database, ETL and data analytics 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 to 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

What we need to see:

• Pursuing or recently completed Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related computationally focused science degree or equivalent 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 (preferred), OpenACC, OpenMP, MPI, pthreads, TBB, etc.

• In-depth expertise with CPU/GPU architecture fundamentals, especially memory subsystem.

• Domain expertise in high performance databases, ETL, data analytics and/or vector database.

• Good communication and organization skills, with a logical approach to problem solving, and prioritization skills.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience optimizing/implementing database operators or query planner, especially for parallel or distributed frameworks (e.g. production database or Spark).

• Experience optimizing vector database index build and/or search.

• Experience profiling and optimizing CUDA kernels.

• Background with compression, storage systems, networking, and distributed computer architectures.

Data Analytics is one of the rapidly growing fields in GPU accelerated computing. Data preprocessing and data engineering are traditionally CPU based and are becoming the bottleneck for Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) applications, as performance of the frameworks and core ML/DL libraries has been highly optimized leveraging GPUs. Many of today’s applications have complex data analytics pipelines that can benefit from optimizations in memory management, compression, parallel algorithms like sort, search, join, aggregation, groupby, scaling up to multi GPU systems, and scaling out to many nodes. Take a look at some of the open-source projects that our Devtech team have worked on: NVIDIA nvcomp, NVIDIA Distributed join, NVIDIA cuCollections .

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and dedicated people in the world working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 124,000 USD - 195,500 USD for Level 2, and 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3.Applications for this job will be accepted at least until March 6, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

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NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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