Senior Python-C++ Engineer for GPU Libraries

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 356,500; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, CA is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to advance the Python experience for CUDA Core Libraries. You will design Pythonic APIs, bindings, and runtime infrastructure on top of native C/C++ foundations.

You will own features end-to-end, collaborate with teams across C/C++, Rust, and compiler stacks, and strengthen developer tooling, packaging, and diagnostics to improve performance and usability for GPU developers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant software‑development experience.
• Strong production programming skills in Python and C/C++.
• Experience building Python interfaces to native or systems‑level software.
• Understanding of systems software concepts, performance, concurrency, and API design.
• Practical experience with parallel, heterogeneous, or GPU programming.
• Experience developing production software or widely used libraries, including testing, profiling, benchmarking, packaging, and code review.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement idiomatic Python APIs and bindings for foundational CUDA capabilities and GPU algorithms.
• Develop and integrate the native C/C++ components that support Python‑facing functionality.
• Define reliable and efficient interoperability boundaries between Python, C/C++, Rust, and other languages.
• Develop high‑performance interfaces that minimize Python and native‑language integration overhead.
• Own features throughout their lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, profiling, benchmarking, documentation, release, and long‑term maintenance.
• Improve the Python developer experience through typing, packaging, examples, diagnostics, continuous integration, and compatibility testing.
• Collaborate with C/C++, Rust, compiler, and runtime engineers on shared architecture and API decisions.
• Work directly with users to investigate correctness, usability, compatibility, and performance issues.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

libcudacxx

Thrust

CUB

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, CA is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to advance the Python experience for CUDA Core Libraries. You will design Pythonic APIs, bindings, and runtime infrastructure on top of native C/C++ foundations.

You will own features end-to-end, collaborate with teams across C/C++, Rust, and compiler stacks, and strengthen developer tooling, packaging, and diagnostics to improve performance and usability for GPU developers.