Senior Software Engineer – Simulation and Virtualization

About the role

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the development of simulation platforms for their next-generation NVIDIA DGX server platforms. The ideal candidate will work with a global team to build, integrate, and enhance simulator components, ensuring they can handle new hardware features and support the full software stack.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architect and develop simulation platform for next-gen NVIDIA DGX platforms.
• Build, integrate and enhance simulator components with new HW features and write supporting technical documents.
• Bring full SW stack up on DGX Simulator; work closely with hardware modeling, kernel & platform driver teams distributed globally.
• Improve performance, fix bugs across user and kernel stack, and automate execution flow.

Requirements

• Proficient in C/C++ with strong software development, optimization, user & kernel mode debugging skills.
• OS fundamentals and system architecture understanding like low-level interfaces such as buses, controllers, interrupts etc.
• Good understanding of hypervisors & HW emulators, like QEMU, KVM, VDK, Simics, etc.
• Working experience on any one major Linux distro like Ubuntu, RedHat, SLES etc.
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills to work with a globally distributed engineering team.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related (or equivalent experience) with 5+ years of relevant experience.

Qualifications

• Experience in HW & SW stack bring up using Simulators & Emulators etc.
• Previous experience around hardware interfaces such as PCIe, SPI, I3C etc with Linux boot solutions on x86 & ARM class platforms.
• Experience in Out of Band and Inband management architectures.
• Contribution in QEMU/KVM opensource repositories.
• Experience in Verilog and SystemC.

Benefits

The company offers competitive compensation, including a base salary range of $152,000 - $241,500 for Level 3 and $184,000 - $287,500 for Level 4, along with equity and benefits.

Pay

Base salary will be determined based on location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

Schedule

The posting is for an existing vacancy and applications will be accepted until July 9, 2026.