Senior GPU / CUDA Software Engineer

TMC; Eindhoven; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing (Employeneur) lower

Personal training budget

Technical coaching

Strong network of high-tech pros

Work on complex, innovative projects

Freedom to shape your development

Job summary

TMC is seeking a Senior GPU/CUDA Software Engineer to design and optimize high-performance C++/CUDA software for GPU-accelerated applications. You will work on signal/image processing, numerical modelling, and AI workloads, translating mathematical algorithms into efficient GPU implementations.

The role involves profiling, kernel optimization, memory management, and CPU-GPU data transfers, with close collaboration across FPGA, electronics, firmware, systems, algorithms, and AI teams to shape

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in a technical field such as CS, EE, or Math.
• Strong professional experience with C++ and CUDA.
• Deep hands-on CUDA GPU programming and performance optimization knowledge.
• Experience with memory hierarchy, bandwidth, and occupancy.
• Familiarity with profiling and performance-analysis tools.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented software design.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize high-performance C++ and CUDA software for GPU-accelerated applications.
• Translate computationally intensive algorithms into efficient GPU implementations.
• Profile and optimize CPU-GPU data transfers and kernel performance.
• Improve latency, throughput, and scalability across heterogeneous systems.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including FPGA, firmware, AI, and systems engineers.
• Contribute to hardware-software partitioning and system architectures.

Skills

CUDA

C++

GPU programming

Performance optimization

Profiling tools

Parallelization

Memory optimization

CPU-GPU transfer

Education

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Nsight

CUDA Toolkit

Job description

Are you an experienced engineer with strong expertise in GPU programming and CUDA optimization? Do you enjoy working on performance-critical software where mathematics, algorithms, and hardware come together?

At TMC, we are looking for a Senior GPU / CUDA Software Engineer to work on advanced high-tech applications where processing speed, scalability, and reliability are essential.

What will you do?

In this role, you will design, develop, and optimize high-performance C++ and CUDA software for GPU-accelerated applications.

You will work on computationally intensive algorithms in areas such as signal processing, image processing, numerical modelling, and AI, translating them into efficient GPU implementations.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing and optimizing high-performance C++ and CUDA software
• Designing and improving CUDA kernels for maximum execution efficiency
• Profiling CPU and GPU workloads to identify performance bottlenecks
• Optimizing memory usage, bandwidth, synchronization, and CPU-GPU data transfers
• Improving latency, throughput, scalability, and overall resource utilization
• Applying parallelization, vectorization, computation reuse, and kernel fusion techniques
• Maintaining numerical accuracy and output quality while improving performance
• Working closely with FPGA, electronics, firmware, systems, algorithm, and AI engineers
• Contributing to hardware-software partitioning and complete system architectures

What do we expect from you?

• A Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Biomedical Engineering, or a related technical field
• Strong professional experience with C++
• Deep hands-on experience with CUDA and GPU programming
• Strong knowledge of CUDA performance optimization, including:
• memory hierarchy
• memory bandwidth
• occupancy
• CUDA streams
• CPU-GPU data transfer
• Experience with profiling and performance-analysis tools
• Strong understanding of object-oriented software design and maintainable software architecture
• A solid mathematical foundation

Experience in one or more of the following areas is highly valued:

• Signal processing
• Image processing
• Numerical algorithms
• Scientific computing
• Physics-based simulation
• Experience with embedded computing platforms, high-bandwidth data paths, FPGA environments, or hardware-software co-design is considered an advantage.

You communicate clearly and are comfortable working in multidisciplinary and international engineering teams.

What can you expect from TMC?

TMC combines the security of permanent employment with the opportunity to work on challenging projects within leading high-tech environments.

As an Employeneur, you can expect:

• Individual profit sharing
• A personal training and development budget
• Technical and professional coaching
• Access to a strong network of high-tech professionals
• The opportunity to work on complex and innovative engineering projects
• Freedom to actively shape your own professional development