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# Senior Software Engineer Aerial Platform

- **Company:** NVIDIA Ltd.
- **Location:** Hillsboro, OR, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $184,000 - $287,500
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** LTE (Telecommunication), Systems Engineering, C++ (Programming Language), Network Analysis, Nvidia CUDA, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Software Modules, Performance Testing, Gpu Programming, Information Technology, Wireless Technologies
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25304_b07e0c39d43cda831f25a8b4a02c49a7

## About the Role

* Our ideal candidate has a wireless communication systems or digital signal processing background, a passion for building real-world carrier-grade communication systems, and industry experience developing PHY/MAC layer or base band unit (BBU) software in C/C++.
 * Understanding of the PHY/MAC layer procedures and typical performance tradeoffs, as well as overall system performance.
 * Background with LTE/5G MAC and PHY from both systems and low-level 3GPP spec point of view. Ability to switch between high-level systems view and low-level detail view of complex wireless systems.
 * Comfortable using wireless lab equipment such as signal generators, network analyzers, power meters, etc. Exposure to CUDA/GPU programming is a plus.
 * MS or PhD in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science or Telecommunications (or equivalent experience)
 * 8+ years of work-related proven experience in software development, systems engineering.
 * Ability to work as an individual contributor or take a technical leadership role. Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with management and engineering.
 * Experience in the telecommunications industry or with customers/partners in the telecommunications domain.
 * Strong time-management and organization skills for coordinating multiple initiatives, priorities and implementations of new technology and products into very complex projects. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

## Description

* Lead design and development of ground breaking end-to-end reference system stack for 5G/6G baseband system.
 * Optimizing CPU, GPU and NIC sub-systems for predictable low-latency and maximum throughput
 * Collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve performance bottlenecks in CPU, GPU and NIC sub-systems
 * Work in lab environment to trouble-shoot and integrate complex software modules.
 * Develop software, implementing new baseband functions in C/C++/Python/CUDA on a GPU platform.
 * Support system integration, performance testing, system demonstration and lab trials for end-to-end system.
 * Be a technical bridge between engineering team and partners/customers engineering team. Engage with customer field trials and technical teams.
 * Help in implementing missing features to unblock progress at customers/partners and in benchmarking and develop/evaluate test tools for Aerial SDK evaluation.