Senior CUDA System Software Engineer – Chip & Driver

NVIDIA AI; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 288,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a senior engineer to advance the CUDA driver and its integration across silicon, SOCs, and operating system interfaces. You will collaborate with hardware and software teams to design, simulate, and bring up CUDA on new GPUs and architectures, delivering robust performance across platforms.

The role emphasizes kernel-level programming, driver development, and strong collaboration. Expect involvement from design through production release in a fast-paced, innovation-driven

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of relevant systems software development experience
• Strong C programming skills, knowledge of parallel programming
• Excellent knowledge of computer system architectures
• Experience with operating system interfaces for threads, process control, and virtual memory
• Experience writing and debugging multithreaded programs
• Background with working with large codebases
• Good written communication as well as strong collaborative skills and ability to effectively guide and influence across groups

Responsibilities

• Develop Software on Pre-Si environments(Simulation/Emulation)
• Own and drive CUDA enablement for new Silicon and Architecture
• Work with SW, HW and relevant teams to develop, stabilize and productize CUDA features for new chips and systems
• Promote, architect, and implement new features, as well as own contribution to bring up of CUDA on new chips
• Help define forward-looking improvements to the CUDA APIs and programming model, while driving development efforts across multiple teams
• Write effective, maintainable, and well-tested code
• Developing code for multiple operating systems

Skills

C programming

Parallel programming

Multithreading

Large codebases

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE/EE

Tools

Windows driver development

Linux driver development

macOS driver development

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a senior engineer to advance the CUDA driver and its integration across silicon, SOCs, and operating system interfaces. You will collaborate with hardware and software teams to design, simulate, and bring up CUDA on new GPUs and architectures, delivering robust performance across platforms.

The role emphasizes kernel-level programming, driver development, and strong collaboration. Expect involvement from design through production release in a fast-paced, innovation-driven