Senior System Software Engineer - Performance

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

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 workloads. Identify hardware/software 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.
• Perform 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 best practices across NVIDIA software products & open source SDKs.

Requirements

• BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 6+ years of relevant computer architecture or software development experience.
• Proven leadership skills and strong ownership on past projects.
• Hands-on technical experience and demonstrated excellence in environments 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 skills in performance analysis, data analysis, and performance optimization.

Ways to Stand Out

• Deep expertise in ARM architecture and software 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 high-performance computing (HPC) or large-scale computing environments.

Benefits

• Base salary range: 184,000 USD - 356,500 USD.
• Eligibility for equity and benefits (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/benefits/).
• Commitment to diversity and equal opportunity employment.