Senior Graphics APIs & Platforms Leader

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 272,000 - 431,000; Full time

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Benefits package

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara is seeking a deeply technical Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Graphics APIs and Platforms team. You will own the team's technical direction, delivering on drivers, platform software, and shading language capabilities for current and next-generation GPUs.

You will mentor engineers, define the roadmap, and drive delivery across hardware enablement, performance optimization, and validation, with a strong focus on AI-assisted development and cross-team

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ overall years of experience in graphics, GPU, or system software engineering, including 4+ years leading engineering teams.
• Deep expertise in graphics system software, with a strong background in drivers, runtimes, or graphics API implementations.
• Strong understanding of GPU architecture, graphics and compute pipelines, and how software interacts with hardware.
• Strong C/C++ programming background and experience debugging complex systems across software and hardware boundaries.
• Proven success developing engineers and leading teams that ship production-quality software.
• Hands-on experience with agentic development workflows and sound judgment about applying them to system software engineering.
• Clear communication, strong technical judgment, and disciplined execution across team boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the engineering team responsible for console graphics platforms, compute-based graphics, and Slang.
• Own the team's technical roadmap, priorities, quality, and delivery commitments.
• Advance graphics APIs and shading language capabilities to support the growing role of compute and AI in graphics.
• Drive production delivery, from hardware enablement and driver development through performance optimization, validation, and release.
• Work with GPU architects, platform teams, and console partners to define requirements and resolve challenging hardware/software integration problems.
• Strengthen the team through hiring, mentoring, and better engineering practices, including AI-assisted and agentic development.

Skills

Leadership experience

Team mentoring

Communication skills

System software engineering

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in CS/CE/EE

Tools

C/C++

GPU drivers

OpenGL/Vulkan/CUDA

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara is seeking a deeply technical Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Graphics APIs and Platforms team. You will own the team's technical direction, delivering on drivers, platform software, and shading language capabilities for current and next-generation GPUs.

You will mentor engineers, define the roadmap, and drive delivery across hardware enablement, performance optimization, and validation, with a strong focus on AI-assisted development and cross-team