Senior System Software Engineer - Performance

Overview

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and optimize software for our next-generation SoCs. In both pre-silicon and post-silicon phases of execution.
• Review architectural performance bottlenecks for various system wide work loads. Identify HW/SW policies to drive performance and performance/watt leadership.
• Using strong communication skills, build and drive architecture, analysis documents and communications to internal and/or external audiences about our technology.
• Competitive analysis comparing uArchitecture & workload performance metrics on NVIDIA's ARM SoCs against emerging processors from other silicon vendors.
• Influence and drive full-stack adoption of performance optimizations and standard methodologies across NVIDIA SW products & OSS SDKs

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree (or equivalent experience).
• 6+ years of relevant computer architecture or SW development experience.
• Proven leadership skills and strong ownership on past projects.
• Hands on technical experience and demonstrated excellence in an environment with complex software and hardware designs.
• Strong understanding of multicore hardware, operating systems design, concurrency, virtual memory, caching, interrupts, device drivers and real-time programming.
• Strong skills in performance analysis, data analysis and performance optimization.

Ways to stand out from the crowd

• Deep expertise in ARM architecture and SW ecosystem.
• Proficient in analyzing, debugging and tuning performance of complex system software stacks.
• Experience with CPU server system workloads and performance analysis.
• Familiarity with CUDA programming and/or GPUs.
• Experience with HPC or large-scale computing environments.

Compensation and benefits

Salary ranges: The base salary will be determined based on location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5. Eligible for equity and benefits.

Other information

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until May 28, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes. NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be 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.