Senior Systems Engineer: Toolchains, Performance & Equity

NVIDIA; California (MO); On-site; USD 184,000 - 356,500; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is growing a senior engineering team focused on making our compute software stack first-class on NVIDIA CPU platforms. The engineer will lead cross-stack efforts, validate new capabilities, and turn successful approaches into reusable engineering practices across the stack.

You will work with compiler, platform, performance, library, and application teams to evaluate GCC/LLVM toolchains, integration into large build systems, and drive data-driven improvements with before-and-after

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in CS/CE/EE or equivalent experience with 8+ years in systems software.
• Strong C and C++ development, debugging, and code-review skills.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge with complex native software stacks.
• Experience with GCC or LLVM/Clang, linkers, and build systems.
• Experience with large multi-component codebases and CI environments.
• Experience with profiling, root-cause analysis, and validation.
• Ability to lead projects with ambiguity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead toolchain, build, code-health, and performance-workflow adoption across large software components.
• Evaluate and deploy GCC and LLVM/Clang toolchains, options, linkers, and cross-compilation.
• Integrate modern toolchains into complex build systems and CI environments.
• Establish Clang diagnostic builds and targeted sanitizer coverage with owners.
• Use profiling data, flamegraphs, and analysis to drive improvements.
• Develop automation, dashboards, and migration helpers to boost adoption.
• Escalate blockers to the appropriate compiler or runtime owner.
• Document approaches as reusable playbooks for engineering teams.

Skills

C/C++ development

Linux systems

GCC/LLVM toolchains

CI environments

multicomponent codebases

leadership

communication

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/CE/EE

Tools

GCC

LLVM/Clang

Perf/PMU tooling

Cross-compilation/sysroots

Job description

NVIDIA is growing a senior engineering team focused on making our compute software stack first-class on NVIDIA CPU platforms. The engineer will lead cross-stack efforts, validate new capabilities, and turn successful approaches into reusable engineering practices across the stack.

You will work with compiler, platform, performance, library, and application teams to evaluate GCC/LLVM toolchains, integration into large build systems, and drive data-driven improvements with before-and-after