Senior System Software Engineer, GPU Performance...

NVIDIA Ltd.
Austin, TX, United States
3 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$152,000.0 - $241,500.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

C (Programming Language) Microsoft Windows Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Assembly Language C++ (Programming Language) Nvidia CUDA Computer Programming Computer Engineering Software Debugging Linux Microprocessors Embedded Operating Systems
+7 more
OpenCL Software Engineering System Software Scripting Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) High Performance Computing Information Technology

Job description

  • Develop compute performance analysis tools for GPUs running on Linux, Windows, and embedded operating systems.

  • Work with tools, architecture, and driver teams to design, implement and verify new features in the compute profiler stack.

  • Write fast, effective, maintainable, reliable, and well documented code.

  • Work closely with internal and external partners including other peer organizations within NVIDIA.

  • Provide peer reviews to other specialists including feedback on performance, scalability, and correctness.

  • Document requirements and designs, and review documents with partners.

Requirements

  • PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Engineering or Computer Science.

  • 5+ years of software development experience.

  • Strong programming ability in C, C++ and scripting languages.

  • Strong software design and debugging skills.

  • Extensive hands-on programming experience.

  • Knowledge of a GPU Compute API such as CUDA, OpenCL, or similar.

  • Experience of assembly code patching on CPUs or GPUs.

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • Experience in writing performance or correctness tools.

  • Familiarity with tools for performance analysis.

  • Background in the field that requires high performance computing.

  • Knowledge of GPU hardware architecture and compiler technologies.

Benefits & conditions

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.

About the company

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

Apply for this position

This job is hosted externally. Click below to view the full posting and apply.

Apply on juju.com

Good distractions

Talks and stories from around this role — technically off-topic, practically not.

1:04 min

Introduction to Bitcoin script parsing tools

Steve Shadders · LIVE

1:42 min

Navigating emerging hardware standardization in vendor programming ecosystems

Paul Graham Paul Graham · LIVE

52 sec

Running persistent Linux environments directly on Windows

Ben Breard Ben Breard · WWC 2025

1:34 min

Profiling and debugging GPU code with Nsight developer tools

Paul Graham Paul Graham · WWC 2025

1:53 min

Evaluating traditional scripting languages for modern development tasks

Jens Knipper Jens Knipper · Europe 2026 Virtual

2:15 min

Introduction to CUDA and general-purpose GPU computing

Paul Graham Paul Graham · WWC Europe 2026

Videos

See all

Related articles

See all