Senior Software Engineer 6 Simulation And Virtualization

Details

NVIDIA data center systems, such as DGX and HGX, have become core to NVIDIA's rapidly growing enterprise and cloud provider businesses. These platforms bring together the full power of NVIDIA GPUs, NVIDIA NVLink, NVIDIA InfiniBand networking, NVIDIA Grace CPUs, and a fully optimized NVIDIA AI and HPC software stack. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer who will help build simulators for our DGX Server platforms. Simulations play a significant role in building scalable systems at speed of light. You will work with world-class engineering teams across hardware and software.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architecting and developing a simulation platform for next-gen NVIDIA DGX platforms.
• Build, integrate and enhance simulator components with new hardware features and write supporting technical documentation.
• Bring the full software stack up on the DGX Simulator; work closely with hardware modeling, kernel and platform driver teams distributed globally.
• Improve performance and fix bugs across user and kernel stacks, and automate execution flow.

Requirements

• Proficient in C/C++ with strong software development, optimization, and user & kernel mode debugging skills.
• OS fundamentals and system architecture understanding, including low-level interfaces such as buses, controllers, interrupts.
• Good understanding of hypervisors and hardware emulators, such as QEMU, KVM, VDK, Simics, etc.
• Working experience on at least one major Linux distribution (Ubuntu, RedHat, SLES).
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to work with a globally distributed engineering team.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field (or equivalent experience) with 5+ years of relevant experience.

Ways to stand out (nice to have)

• Experience in hardware and software stack bring-up using simulators and emulators.
• Previous experience with hardware interfaces such as PCIe, SPI, I3C and Linux boot solutions on x86 and ARM platforms.
• Experience in Out-of-Band and Inband management architectures.
• Contributions to QEMU/KVM open source repositories.
• Experience with Verilog and SystemC.

Compensation & Other Details

• Base salary range: 148,000 USD - 235,750 USD for Level 3, and 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.
• You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
• Applications for this job will be accepted at least until August 11, 2025.

Equal Opportunity

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate (including in 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.