Senior Graphics Driver Optimization Engineer

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 242,000; Full time

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Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA seeks an engineer to develop and optimize graphics software, analyze real-world workloads, design experiments to isolate bottlenecks, and debug performance regressions. You will collaborate with driver teams to turn findings into measurable improvements.

You will work with leading professional applications for design, engineering, digital content creation, and visualization, contributing to industry-standard workstation benchmarks and learning about advanced graphics, GPU computing,

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field—or equivalent experience.
• 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 software development methodologies such as design reviews and code reviews.
• Ability to develop and debug software in a Windows OS environment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools and enthusiasm for learning new technologies.

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

Debugging

Analytical thinking

Communication & collaboration

Education

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

Tools

Perforce

Git

Job description

NVIDIA seeks an engineer to develop and optimize graphics software, analyze real-world workloads, design experiments to isolate bottlenecks, and debug performance regressions. You will collaborate with driver teams to turn findings into measurable improvements.

You will work with leading professional applications for design, engineering, digital content creation, and visualization, contributing to industry-standard workstation benchmarks and learning about advanced graphics, GPU computing,