Cisco

Software Engineer, Compute Performance

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2 days ago
Milpitas, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$155k - $223k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Run and analyze AI training, inference, and HPC workloads on GPU-accelerated systems.
  • Investigate compute, memory, PCIe, storage, and workload scaling issues.
  • Use telemetry, logs, traces, and profiling tools to identify performance bottlenecks.
  • Develop automation for performance testing, regression detection, and failure triage.
  • Collaborate with hardware and software teams to resolve system and workload performance issues.
  • Document findings, test procedures, and performance results.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree with more than five years of related experience, master’s degree with more than three years of related experience, PhD with relevant research experience, or equivalent related work experience.
  • Experience debugging, testing, or tuning Linux-based systems.
  • Experience running or evaluating AI, machine learning, or HPC workloads.
  • At least three years of experience with a programming or scripting language such as Python, C, C++, Go, or Bash.
  • Familiarity with CUDA, ROCm, NCCL, RCCL, Nsight, DCGM, rocprofiler, or similar performance tools is preferred.
  • Understanding of GPU memory, NUMA, PCIe, and scale-up interconnects is preferred.
  • Exposure to NVIDIA NVLink, NVSwitch, AMD Infinity Fabric, or xGMI is preferred.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Slurm, or other distributed workload environments is preferred.

Benefits

  • Starting salary range is $155,000.00 to $222,600.00, with additional location-specific ranges listed for New York City Metro, non-metro New York, and Washington state.
  • Benefits may include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, basic life insurance, and potential restricted stock unit grants.
  • Paid time off includes holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional volunteer days.
  • Non-sales employees may be eligible for annual bonuses.

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About Cisco

10,000+ employees

Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.

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