Manager, CUDA Driver

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); Vor Ort; USD 224.000 - 431.000; Vollzeit

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Equity

Benefits

Zusammenfassung

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA, seeks an engineering manager to lead the CUDA Driver team. You will guide memory-model related CUDA components and collaborate across NVIDIA to shape the CUDA roadmap and feature adoption.

You will mentor engineers, set priorities, and drive execution while improving processes in a fast-paced, high-performance environment. This role centers on architecture, performance, and cross-team coordination.

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in management.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science/Engineering or related field.
• Strong system software fundamentals; hands-on C programming and debugging.

Aufgaben

• Lead a team of system software engineers to design and build CUDA for current and future hardware architectures.
• Engage across NVIDIA to define and drive CUDA roadmap.
• Contribute to CUDA feature design and drive adoption of new CUDA functionality.
• Establish team objectives, prioritize work, mentor team members, and manage performance.
• Monitor execution and lead process-improvement initiatives.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Team management

System software fundamentals

C programming

Debugging

Roadmap alignment

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in CS/CE or related

Tools

CUDA API

OpenCL API

OpenGL API

Vulkan API

Jobbeschreibung

We are looking for a software engineering manager with strong leadership and mentoring skills to join the CUDA Driver team! We design the CUDA programming model, expose that programming model through the CUDA Driver & CUDA Runtime APIs, and implement the associated functionality in the CUDA Driver & CUDA Runtime. The CUDA Driver and its programming model serve as the foundation for NVIDIA’s CUDA-X software stackand compute platform. The team primarily works on aspects of the CUDA Driver related to its memory model – how toallocate, move, and access memory in a performant and efficient manner across NVIDIA’s range of hardware offerings, includingboth single-node and multi-node environments.

What you will be doing:

• Lead a team of system software engineers to design and build CUDA for current and future hardware architectures.
• Engage multi-functionally with teams across NVIDIA to define and drive CUDA’s roadmap.
• Contribute to CUDA feature design and drive adoption of new CUDA functionality.
• Establish teamobjectives, prioritize incoming work,mentor team members, andmanage team performance.
• Monitor team execution,identifyopportunities for process improvement, and take the lead on implementing any identified improvements.

What we need to see:

• 8+ overall years of experience in the software industry with 3+ years of management experience
• Bachelors, Masters, or Ph.D. or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, ora relatedfield.
• Strong systemsoftware fundamentals, hands-on Cprogrammingand debugging skills.
• Ability to manage a team’s execution towards project deliverables, particularly in environments with competing priorities.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• In depthunderstanding of computer architecture and memory subsystems.
• Experience implementing or directly using GPU programming APIs, such as CUDA, OpenCL, OpenGL, or Vulkan.
• Background with distributed systems or high-performance clusters.
• Experience with Deep Learning frameworks such asPyTorch, TensorFlow, orvLLM.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 3, and 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD for Level 4.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until September 19, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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