Senior Graphics Driver Engineer — Optimize App Performance

NVIDIA; United States; On-site; USD 152,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking an engineer who enjoys developing software and uncovering why complex professional applications behave the way they do. You will develop and optimize graphics software, analyze workloads, and design experiments to isolate bottlenecks.

You will work with driver teams to turn findings into measurable improvements and contribute to industry-standard workstation benchmarks, tackling challenging performance questions.

Qualifications

• Strong C/C++ programming skills.
• 5+ years experience with software performance analysis, profiling, optimization, or debugging.
• Understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and how applications interact with graphics APIs and GPU hardware.
• Familiarity with source-control systems such as Perforce or Git.
• Experience with design reviews and code reviews.
• Ability to develop and debug software in a Windows OS environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop, debug, and validate graphics software and optimizations that improve professional application performance on NVIDIA GPUs.
• Analyze professional workstation applications and identify opportunities to improve performance and user experience.
• Design experiments and develop analysis techniques to isolate complex application-performance bottlenecks.
• Profile application and graphics API workloads using traces, performance counters, and other analysis techniques.
• Create tools, scripts, and automated workflows, including AI-assisted techniques, for performance analysis, regression detection, and validation.
• Collaborate with application developers and NVIDIA driver, architecture, and hardware teams to evaluate and deliver performance improvements.
• Develop representative workstation benchmarks that capture meaningful real-world application behavior.

Skills

C/C++ programming

Software performance analysis

Windows debugging

Problem-solving

Communication

Collaboration

AI-assisted tools familiarity

Graphics APIs understanding

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/SE/CE or related

Tools

Perforce

Git

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking an engineer who enjoys developing software and uncovering why complex professional applications behave the way they do. You will develop and optimize graphics software, analyze workloads, and design experiments to isolate bottlenecks.

You will work with driver teams to turn findings into measurable improvements and contribute to industry-standard workstation benchmarks, tackling challenging performance questions.