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# Senior System Software Engineer - Performance

- **Company:** NVIDIA Ltd.
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $184,000.0 - $287,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Computing Platforms, ARM Architecture, Nvidia CUDA, Computer Programming, Computer Engineering, Software Debugging, Device Drivers, Microprocessors, Hardware Design, Multiprocessing, Performance Tuning, Software Engineering, System on a Chip, System Software, Virtual Memory, Software Organization, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Real Time Systems, Concurrency, Caching, Information Technology
- **Published:** August 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gmg6dx

## About the Role

+ 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 stills in performance analysis, data analysis and performance optimization.

 + Strong use of linux perf tool, application/library performance optimizations.

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.

## Description

NVIDIA is searching for a highly motivated, technical engineer to join the Tegra system-on-chip (SoC) software organization. You will work on key aspects of our ARM SW ecosystem and system software architecture. With a targeted charter to enable best-in-class datacenter-scale performance and efficiency for our next generation of datacenter products, including CPUs and CPU+GPU Superchips.

What you will be doing:

 + 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 best practices across NVIDIA SW products & OSS SDKs


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