Principal Engineer, CUDA UMD - GPU Kernel Scheduling

About the role

NVIDIA is seeking a seasoned software professional to join our team as a System Software Engineer specializing in CUDA Driver. This role is crucial for delivering features and improvements to enhance the performance of NVIDIA's GPU hardware across various computational workloads.

Responsibilities

• Use design abilities and coding expertise to deliver the best compute platform in the world.
• Craft elegant solutions to exciting problems and shape the future direction of CUDA.
• Evangelize, architect, and implement new features.
• Coordinate and drive development efforts across multiple teams.
• Help define forward-looking improvements to the CUDA APIs and programming model.
• Extend important CUDA programming models and functionality such as CUDA Graphs.
• Explore ways to use Graphs to improve the scheduling of AI/ML workloads on our GPUs to be more efficient and faster.
• Write effective, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Develop code for multiple operating systems.

Requirements

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum of 15+ years of related development experience (multiple positions for varying experience levels open).
• Experience driving projects across multiple teams.
• Experience working with large codebases.
• Experience with operating system interfaces for threads, process control, and virtual memory.
• Experience writing and debugging multithreaded programs.
• Good written communication as well as presentation skills.

Qualifications

• Strong C and C++ programming skills.
• Prior experience with parallel computing - preferably writing CUDA Programs or Libraries that use CUDA.
• Understanding of system level architecture, such as interconnects, memory hierarchy, interrupts, and memory-mapped I/O.
• Knowledge of memory coherence and consistency models.
• Experience with kernel mode development.
• Experience with Linux Systems Software development.
• Experience maintaining and extending programming models or higher-level language support for similar environments.

Benefits

Base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is $272,000 - $431,250. Eligible for equity and benefits.

Schedule

Open until July 14, 2026.

Pay

Base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is $272,000 - $431,250.