Senior System Software Engineer, GPU Performance Profiling

About the role

Join the NVIDIA Developer Tools team and empower engineers throughout the world developing innovative products in Automotive, VR, Gaming, Deep Learning, and High Performance Computing! See your efforts in action as developers use your tools to profile and analyze the performance of their applications and systems. Innovate as you develop the performance analysis capability of future generations of NVIDIA GPUs.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Develop compute performance analysis tools for GPUs running on Linux, Windows, and embedded operating systems.
• Work with tools, architecture, and driver teams to design, implement and verify new features in the compute profiler stack.
• Write fast, effective, maintainable, reliable, and well documented code.
• Work closely with internal and external partners including other peer organizations within NVIDIA.
• Provide peer reviews to other specialists including feedback on performance, scalability, and correctness.
• Document requirements and designs, and review documents with partners.

What We Need To See

• PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Engineering or Computer Science.
• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Strong programming ability in C, C++ and scripting languages.
• Strong software design and debugging skills.
• Extensive hands-on programming experience.
• Knowledge of a GPU Compute API such as CUDA, OpenCL, or similar.
• Experience of assembly code patching on CPUs or GPUs.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Experience in writing performance or correctness tools.
• Familiarity with tools for performance analysis.
• Background in the field that requires high performance computing.
• Knowledge of GPU hardware architecture and compiler technologies.

Pay

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is $152,000 - $241,500 for Level 3, and $184,000 - $287,500 for Level 4.

Schedule

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hard-working people in the world working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you!

Benefits

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Application Instructions

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until February 21, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy.