Senior System Software Engineer - CUDA Driver & Silicon

NVIDIA; United States; On-site; USD 184,000 - 288,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking senior engineers to advance the CUDA driver, a core component powering accelerated computation on NVIDIA GPUs. You will design, implement, and refine driver features across chip generations, collaborating with hardware, software, and systems teams.

You will contribute from pre-silicon modeling and simulation to production bring-up, driving performance, stability, and new CUDA APIs while working across Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms.

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of relevant systems software development experience.
• Strong C programming skills, knowledge of parallel programming.
• Excellent knowledge of computer system architectures.
• Experience with operating system interfaces for threads, process control, and virtual memory.
• Experience writing and debugging multithreaded programs.
• Background with working with large codebases.
• Deep understanding of technology and passionate about what you do.
• Good written communication as well as strong collaborative skills and ability to effectively guide and influence across groups.

Responsibilities

• Develop Software on Pre-Si environments (Simulation/Emulation).
• Own and drive CUDA enablement for new Silicon and Architecture.
• Work with SW, HW and relevant teams to develop, stabilize and productize CUDA features for new chips and systems.
• Promote, architect, and implement new features, as well as own contribution to bring up of CUDA on new chips.
• Help define forward-looking improvements to the CUDA APIs and programming model, while driving development efforts across multiple teams.
• Write effective, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Developing code for multiple operating systems.

Skills

C programming

Parallel programming

Multithreading

OS concepts

Communication/collaboration

GPU architecture knowledge

Education

BS/MS in Computer Engineering / Computer Science / Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Kernel mode development

CUDA

Pre-Si simulation

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking senior engineers to advance the CUDA driver, a core component powering accelerated computation on NVIDIA GPUs. You will design, implement, and refine driver features across chip generations, collaborating with hardware, software, and systems teams.

You will contribute from pre-silicon modeling and simulation to production bring-up, driving performance, stability, and new CUDA APIs while working across Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms.