Senior System Software Engineer - Performance

at Nvidia

📍 Santa Clara, United States

USD 184,000-356,500 per year

SENIOR

✅ On-site

Tech Stack
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Details

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.

Responsibilities

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.

Requirements

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.