Senior System Software Engineer - Performance

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a highly motivated engineer to join the Tegra SoC software organization in Santa Clara. You will design, develop, test, and optimize software for next-generation ARM-based SoCs, working through pre-silicon and post-silicon phases to improve performance and efficiency.

You will review bottlenecks, analyze system workloads, and drive policy decisions to achieve leadership in performance. The role requires strong leadership, deep hardware/software understanding, and collaboration

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree (or equivalent).
• 6+ years of relevant computer architecture or software development experience.
• Strong leadership and ownership on past projects.
• Hands-on technical experience in complex software/hardware designs.
• Strong understanding of multicore hardware, OS design, concurrency, VM, caching, interrupts, devices, RT programming.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and optimize software for next-generation SoCs.
• Cover pre-silicon and post-silicon phases of execution.
• Review architectural performance bottlenecks across system workloads.
• Identify HW/SW policies to drive performance and efficiency leadership.
• Create and drive architecture/analysis docs and communications for internal/external audiences.
• Conduct competitive analysis of architecture and workload performance on NVIDIA ARM SoCs.

Skills

Multicore arch

OS design

Concurrency

Virtual memory

Device drivers

Real-time programming

Performance analysis

Leadership

Data analysis

Education

BS/MS in CS/CE

Tools

CUDA

Linux

Job description

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It is a unique legacy of innovation that is fueled by great technology- and amazing people. Today, we are tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what has never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you will be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Come join the team and see how you can make a lasting impact on the world.

NVIDIA is searching for a highly motivated, technical engineer to join the Tegra system-on-chip (SoC) software organization. You will work on key aspects of our ARM SW ecosystem and system software architecture. With a targeted charter to enable best-in-class datacenter-scale performance and efficiency for our next generation of datacenter products, including CPUs and CPU+GPU Superchips.

What you will be doing:

• Design, develop, test, and optimize software for our next-generation SoCs.
• In both pre-silicon and post-silicon phases of execution.
• Review architectural performance bottlenecks for various system wide work loads.
• Identify HW/SW policies to drive performance and performance/watt leadership.
• Using strong communication skills, build and drive architecture, analysis documents and communications to internal and/or external audiences about our technology.
• Competitive analysis comparing uArchitecture & workload performance metrics on NVIDIA's ARM SoCs against emerging processors from other silicon vendors.
• Influence and drive full-stack adoption of performance optimizations and standard methodologies across NVIDIA SW products & OSS SDKs.

What we need to see:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree (or equivalent experience).
• 6+ years of relevant computer architecture or SW development experience.
• Proven leadership skills and strong ownership on past projects.
• Hands on technical experience and demonstrated excellence in an environment with complex software and hardware designs.
• Strong understanding of multicore hardware, operating systems design, concurrency, virtual memory, caching, interrupts, device drivers and real-time programming.
• Strong stills in performance analysis, data analysis and performance optimization.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Deep expertise in ARM architecture and SW ecosystem.
• Proficient in analyzing, debugging and tuning performance of complex system software stacks.
• Experience with CPU server system workloads and performance analysis.
• Familiarity with CUDA programming and/or GPUs.
• Experience with HPC or large-scale computing environments.

Widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers, NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package.

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.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until September 13, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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