Senior Software Engineer - GPU and SOC

NVIDIA is searching for highly motivated, creative engineers to join the Platform Software team. You will work with a team of hardworking software engineers working on all aspects of SOC and system, and technology verticals. As someone who is hardworking and passionate about their craft, you will design key aspects of our SOC drivers, Firmware, BIOS, BSP, sophisticated CI/CD system, as well as collaborating with key partners and OEM customers. You should demonstrate the ability to excel in an environment with fast pace and agility.

What you'll be doing:

• Developing, triaging and debugging Pre-OS Firmware, BIOS, SoC & Platform drivers

• Building sophisticated automation triage tools and, FW and OS-drivers issue packetizations

• Supporting OS driver development, bring up and triaging of Platform and Multimedia drivers

• Supporting the OEM ecosystem and providing innovative solutions

• Drive Startup and Shutdown Time KPIs goal & optimizations

• Drive end-to-end performance excellence: debug and root-cause GPU bottlenecks and issues for gaming, creator, and AI workload, validate BSP performance and stability KPIs; develop firmware/SW optimizations for Arm SoCs and unified memory; build benchmarks, automation, and telemetry tools

• Supporting various ecosystems related verticals

• Responsible for full product lifecycle from pre-silicon to bringup to production, in products across different business verticals: FW and OS-driver verification on Pre-Silicon (emulation, simulation) platforms, Bring-up of FW & OS-drivers on silicon, Post-Silicon SW milestones execution and launching SW product.

• Be heavily involved in architecture definition and early modeling, simulation required to create our groundbreaking products

• Multiple opportunities to collaborate and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams from all around the globe

What we need to see:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience with 5+ years of meaningful software development experience

• Strong understanding on ARM microarchitecture as well as understanding of ARM exception levels

• Strong understanding of Pre-OS Firmware, uP / subsystems Firmware and Software, peripherals

• Strong systems engineer with experience across the full hardware-software SoC & GPU stack: application performance profiling and optimization, low-level firmware development, and hands-on silicon bring-up; effective collaborator across engineering levels and senior management.

• Strong C/C++ and Python programming skills as well as having shown initiative in pursuing independent coding projects

• Good understanding of ACPI as Device tree concepts

• Familiarity with computer system architecture, microprocessor, and microcontroller fundamentals (caches, buses, memory controllers, DMA, etc.)

• Strong Operating systems fundamentals with Kernel , Hypervisor experience on Windows systems as well as Linux systems

• Hands on experience on debuggers like GDB, WinDBG as well compilers like GCC, MSVC, LLVM etc

• Good understanding of SOC architecture spanning across Boot, Security and OS

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Background and strength with sophisticated system-level debugging is invaluable

• Hands-on expertise across GPU SW stack, LLM training and inference, and Arm architecture performance — on both native and emulated execution environments.

• Familiarity with system level security concepts

• Experience with embedded system SW concepts.

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people on the planet working for us. If you're creative, passionate and self-motivated, we want to hear from you! NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3, and 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits ( .

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until May 22, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

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