Principal System Software Engineer - CUDA Driver

Overview

We are hiring senior engineers to work on the CUDA driver, a core component of NVIDIA’s platform for accelerating general purpose computation on the GPU.

What you’ll be doing:

• Use your design abilities, coding expertise, and creativity to deliver the best compute platform in the world.
• Craft elegant solutions to exciting problems and shape the future direction of CUDA.
• Evangelize, architect, and implement new CUDA features.
• Oversee and drive development efforts across multiple teams.
• Collaborate with members of hardware architecture teams.
• Define forward‑looking improvements to the CUDA APIs and programming model.
• Design and maintain performance and precision modeling.
• Write effective, maintainable, and well‑tested code.
• Develop code for multiple operating systems.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science or Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 15+ years of relevant systems software development experience.
• Strong C programming skills.
• Experience designing, debugging, and maintaining complex software stacks.
• Background with operating system interfaces for threads, process control, and virtual memory.
• Experience with HW/SW co‑design, performance modeling using emulation/simulation, and creating programming model exposures for hardware features.
• Expert interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills and proven ability to influence within a dynamic matrix environment.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Understanding of system level architecture such as interconnects, memory hierarchy, interrupts, and memory‑mapped I/O.
• Designing and implementing drivers for rich hardware acceleration engines and software verification test plans.
• Knowledge of CPU, GPU architectures, memory coherence and consistency models.
• Background with kernel‑mode development.
• Some familiarity with C++.

Compensation and Benefits

The base salary range is $272,000 – $431,250 USD, based on location, experience, and market. Eligible for equity and benefits.

Application Deadline

Applications accepted until July 1, 2026.

EEO Statement

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and is an equal‑opportunity employer. We do not discriminate 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.