Senior System Software Engineer - Performance

at Nvidia

USD 184,000-356,500 per year

SENIOR

✅ On-site

Tech Stack
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Details

NVIDIA is seeking a highly motivated technical engineer to join the Tegra system-on-chip (SoC) software organization. The role focuses on the ARM software ecosystem and system software architecture, with a targeted charter to enable best-in-class datacenter-scale performance and efficiency for next-generation datacenter products, including CPUs and CPU+GPU Superchips.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and optimize software for next-generation SoCs during both pre-silicon and post-silicon phases.
Review architectural performance bottlenecks for system-wide workloads.
Identify hardware/software policies to drive performance and performance-per-watt leadership.
Build and drive architecture and analysis documents and communicate technology to internal and external audiences.
Conduct competitive analysis comparing microarchitecture and workload performance metrics on NVIDIA ARM SoCs against emerging processors from other silicon vendors.
Influence and drive full-stack adoption of performance optimizations and standard methodologies across NVIDIA software products and open-source software development kits.

Requirements

Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
At least 6 years of relevant computer architecture or software development experience.
Proven leadership skills and strong ownership of past projects.
Hands-on technical experience and demonstrated excellence in environments involving complex software and hardware designs.
Strong understanding of multicore hardware, operating system design, concurrency, virtual memory, caching, interrupts, device drivers, and real-time programming.
Strong skills in performance analysis, data analysis, and performance optimization.

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits

Base salary range of USD 184,000–287,500 for Level 4.
Base salary range of USD 224,000–356,500 for Level 5.
Eligibility for equity and benefits.
Comprehensive benefits package.
Full-time position.
Applications will be accepted at least until September 13, 2026.
NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive work environment.