Senior Software Engineer - GeForce NOW Video Streaming

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 356,500; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA's GeForce NOW, the next-generation gaming service, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join a team building a high-performance, low-latency streaming stack that delivers exceptional video quality and responsiveness.

You will develop and optimize media streaming, analyze GPU/CPU performance, and collaborate with GPU hardware and software teams to achieve top performance. This role requires 6+ years of experience in C/C++, GPU video pipelines, and telemetry.

Qualifications

• Proficient in C, C++, multithreaded programming and system software design.
• Experience with GPU-accelerated video pipelines and hardware encoders.
• Familiarity with API frameworks such as DirectX, Vulkan, CUDA, OpenGL, NvMedia.
• Experience with telemetry, data analysis and performance monitoring for cloud video systems.
• 6+ years of relevant industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve media streaming stack to deliver ultra-low latency and high video quality.
• Innovate and implement features to enhance image quality, performance, reliability and security.
• Analyze GPU/CPU performance and work with GPU hardware/software teams to optimize performance.
• Build tools to measure video quality and enable rigorous evaluation of improvements.
• Leverage modern video codecs and streaming technologies for varied interactive graphics apps.
• Create adaptive streaming solutions robust to varying network conditions.

Skills

C/C++ programming

GPU video pipelines

Telemetry & performance analysis

OS internals & drivers

Multithreaded software design

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

DirectX

Vulkan

CUDA

OpenGL

NvMedia

Job description

NVIDIA's GeForce NOW, the next-generation gaming service powered by NVIDIA GPUs in the cloud, transforms a Mac, PC, or mobile device into a high-performance gaming machine. GeForce NOW keeps games up-to-date automatically, enabling users worldwide to instantly stream the latest games in high-definition resolution with minimal latency and the smoothest gameplay. Just click and play! Visit us at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now. We are now extending this industry-defining technology to a new range of applications, including virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence, remote-controlled robotics, autonomous vehicles, and edge-to-cloud real-time streaming.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a team of skilled and motivated engineers who develop a high-performance, low-latency streaming stack that delivers unprecedented video quality at the lowest latency, making gaming from the cloud the preferred gaming platform for millions.

What you will be doing:

• Develop and improve media streaming stack to deliver ultra-low streaming latency, video quality, and network resilience
• Innovate, design, and develop features to improve image quality, performance, reliability, security, and maintainability
• Analyze GPU/CPU performance for the video pipeline, isolate bottlenecks and implement solutions in collaboration with GPU hardware and software teams to deliver top performance
• Develop tools to measure video quality experienced by users, refine to enable evaluation of quality improvements with high confidence
• Leverage features and toolsets in the latest video compression technologies to deliver high-quality streaming solutions tailored for different interactive graphics applications
• Build adaptive streaming solutions that maintain quality and continuity under variable and unreliable network conditions

What we need to see:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
• Proficient in C, C++, multi-threaded programming, system software design
• Experience with GPU-accelerated video and graphics pipelines, usage of hardware-based video encoders, color spaces, operations such as video scaling, tone mapping, etc.
• Familiarity with API frameworks such as DirectX, Vulkan, CUDA, OpenGL, V4L2, and NvMedia
• Solid understanding of toolsets in different video codecs like H.264, HEVC, and AV1, including tuning codec configurations to meet application requirements and trade-offs.
• Proficiency in telemetry, statistical data analysis, and performance monitoring to measure and optimize video quality, latency, and system performance in cloud infrastructures.
• Strong understanding of different layers of the software stack, including OS internals, user-mode and kernel-mode drivers, strong system software performance analysis, testing, and debugging skills
• 6+ years of experience in the above areas

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience with NvMedia or NVIDIA’s Video Codec SDK
• Background in optimizing video pipelines on multiple GPU families or SoC platforms
• Experience with real-time streaming protocols and adaptive bit-rate strategies under constrained networks
• Experience writing or analyzing graphics rendering applications or sophisticated AI-based graphics generation, such as DLSS, RTX, FSR

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.