Senior Libraries Engineer – AI and HPC

NVIDIA Corporation; Zürich; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in Zürich seeks a senior software engineer to design, develop, and optimize high-performance data processing libraries with GPU acceleration.

You will work on projects like DALI and nvImageCodec, collaborate with leadership, and drive performance improvements across AI, analytics, image processing, and scientific simulations. The role requires 5+ years of experience, a PhD or MSc in a relevant field, strong C/C++, CUDA expertise, and proven project leadership.

Qualifications

• PhD or MSc in Computational Science, Computer Science, Applied Math, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of experience developing and optimizing high-performance parallel numerical applications with GPU acceleration using CUDA.
• Strong C/C++ programming and software development skills.
• Proven experience leading and completing software development projects.
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and documentation habits.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable library software using modern tools and languages for numerical methods.
• Performance tuning, optimization, and benchmarking of algorithms on various architectures.
• Collaborate with leadership and partners to define feature and performance roadmaps.
• Provide technical leadership to library engineers.
• Identify opportunities to improve user experience and library performance.

Skills

CUDA

C/C++

GPU programming

Parallel computing

Software leadership

Education

PhD or MSc in Computational Science/CS/Applied Math

Tools

JIRA

CI/CD

Job description

Join our multidisciplinary team and help build and improve GPU and CPU accelerated data processing software libraries. Projects like DALI or nvImageCodec are used in all kinds of processing workflows and support NVIDIA's vision and growth.

Starting from powering AI, data analytics, image processing, computer vision, and scientific simulations for leading commercial and academic organizations worldwide. In this role, you will design, develop, and optimize pioneering algorithms. Ideal candidates will have experience with accelerated computing and a passion for advancing the state-of-the-art in various computing domains. If this sounds exciting, we would love to meet you!

What you’ll be doing:

• Developing scalable library software using modern tools and languages for various numerical method.
• Performance tuning, optimization, and benchmarking of algorithms on various architectures.
• Working closely with leadership team and other internal and external partners to understand feature and performance requirements and contribute to the technical roadmaps of libraries.
• Providing technical leadership and guidance to library engineers working with you.
• Find opportunities to improve user experience and library performance.

What we need to see:

• PhD or MSc’s degree in Computational Science, Computer Science, Applied Math, or related science or engineering field of study is preferred (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years experience developing, debugging, and optimizing high-performance parallel numerical applications on modern computing platforms, with GPU acceleration using CUDA.
• C/C++ programming and software development skills.
• Proven experience in leading and completing software development projects.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and documentation habits.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Good knowledge of CPU and/or GPU hardware architecture,
• Experience with software development practices such as CI/CD systems and project management tools such as JIRA,
• Experience with working in a distributed organization,
• Debugging, profiling, and testing skills for accuracy and performance,
• Fluency with Python.

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

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) 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.