Senior System Software Engineer - Performance

About the role

NVIDIA is seeking a highly motivated technical engineer to join the Tegra system-on-chip (SoC) software organization. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and optimizing software for next-generation SoCs. This role involves working on both pre-silicon and post-silicon phases, focusing on enabling best-in-class datacenter-scale performance and efficiency for upcoming datacenter products, including CPUs and CPU+GPU Superchips.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and optimize software for next-generation SoCs.
• Review architectural performance bottlenecks for various system-wide workloads.
• Identify HW/SW policies to drive performance and performance/watt leadership.
• Build and drive architecture, analysis documents, and communications to internal and/or external audiences about our technology.
• Competitive analysis comparing architectures and 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 standard methodologies across NVIDIA SW products & OSS SDKs.

Requirements

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

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in ARM architecture and SW 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 HPC or large-scale computing environments.

Skills

• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to influence and drive adoption of performance optimizations and standard methodologies.
• Knowledge of industry standards and best practices in software development and system architecture.

Benefits

As an NVIDIA employee, you will be eligible for competitive compensation, including base salary ranging from $184,000 to $287,500 for Level 4 and $224,000 to $356,500 for Level 5, along with a comprehensive benefits package. NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.