Senior Systems Software Engineer, CUDA Driver

About the role

NVIDIA is seeking a seasoned software professional to join the CUDA Driver team. The CUDA Driver is a core component of NVIDIA's platform for accelerating general purpose computation on GPUs. This role involves delivering features and improvements to enhance the performance and capabilities of NVIDIA hardware across various computational workloads.

Responsibilities

• Use design abilities, coding expertise, and creativity 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.
• 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).
• Strong C and C++ programming skills.
• Minimum of 7 years of related development experience (multiple positions for varying experience levels open).
• Experience driving projects across multiple teams.
• Experience working with large codebases.
• Background 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

• Prior experience with parallel computing.
• Understanding of system level architecture, such as interconnects, memory hierarchy, interrupts, and memory-mapped IO.
• Background with kernel mode development.
• Experience with Linux, or Windows.

Skills

• Understanding of memory coherence and consistency models.

Benefits

The position offers a competitive base salary range of $184,000 - $287,500, along with equity and benefits. Applications are accepted until July 1, 2026.

NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.