Senior Software Engineer - GeForce NOW Video Streaming

About the role

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a team developing a high-performance, low-latency streaming stack for GeForce NOW. This service transforms devices into high-performance gaming machines, delivering the latest games in high-definition with minimal latency.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve media streaming stack to deliver ultra-low streaming latency, video quality, and network resilience
• Innovate, design, and develop features to improve image quality, performance, reliability, security, and maintainability
• Analyze GPU/CPU performance for the video pipeline, isolate bottlenecks, and implement solutions in collaboration with GPU hardware and software teams
• Develop tools to measure video quality experienced by users, refine to enable evaluation of quality improvements with high confidence
• Leverage features and toolsets in the latest video compression technologies to deliver high-quality streaming solutions tailored for different interactive graphics applications
• Build adaptive streaming solutions that maintain quality and continuity under variable and unreliable network conditions

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
• Proficient in C, C++, multi-threaded programming, system software design
• Experience with GPU-accelerated video and graphics pipelines, usage of hardware-based video encoders, color spaces, operations such as video scaling, tone mapping, etc.
• Familiarity with API frameworks such as DirectX, Vulkan, CUDA, OpenGL, V4L2, and NvMedia
• Solid understanding of toolsets in different video codecs like H.264, HEVC, and AV1, including tuning codec configurations to meet application requirements and trade-offs
• Proficiency in telemetry, statistical data analysis, and performance monitoring to measure and optimize video quality, latency, and system performance in cloud infrastructures
• Strong understanding of different layers of the software stack, including OS internals, user-mode and kernel-mode drivers, strong system software performance analysis, testing, and debugging skills
• 6+ years of experience in the above areas

Qualifications

• Experience with NvMedia or NVIDIA’s Video Codec SDK
• Background in optimizing video pipelines on multiple GPU families or SoC platforms
• Experience with real-time streaming protocols and adaptive bit-rate strategies under constrained networks
• Experience writing or analyzing graphics rendering applications or sophisticated AI-based graphics generation, such as DLSS, RTX, FSR

Benefits

Competitive salaries and a generous benefits package are offered. NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and is an equal opportunity employer. Applications for this job will be accepted at least until July 24, 2026.