System Software Engineer - GeForce NOW Low Latency Streaming

About the role

NVIDIA is looking for a Systems Software engineer to join a team of highly skilled and motivated engineers who build the ultra low latency Streaming technology for GeForce Now. We optimize for ultra low latencies and smoothest streaming for every device type making the right trade-offs across portability, performance, QoS and latency in our designs. Now, are you passionate about driving streaming technology to its edge? If you are a self-starter who can challenge the state of art and build innovative solutions and has the persistence to see ideas through, then we are keen to hear from you.

What You Will Be Doing

• Develop and improve media streaming stack to deliver ultra low streaming latency, video quality and network resilience
• Own end-to-end software development cycle for features and modules and meet performance, reliability, scalability and sustainability requirements
• Develop tools for video perf and quality analysis, verification and tuning
• Define and build performance metrics and indicators, leverage data to analyze and improve streaming performance and user experience
• Participate in software reviews and contribute to quality of designs and code across the team
• Contribute to the evolution of team processes and methodologies

What We Need To See

• Proficient in C, C++, Multi-threaded programming, System software design and debugging skills
• Experience implementing and improving perf and video quality through different stages of video processing pipeline
• Experience analyzing performance and CPU/ GPU resource utilization for video/ graphics applications
• Background with usage of different video capture, codec and render pipelines and API
• Experience with networking, WebRTC and other audio and video transport and handshake protocols
• Experience with development and debugging on Linux and Windows platforms
• BS or MS in Computer Science or related subjects (or equivalent experience) with 3+ years of experience in above areas

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Passionate about gaming and its immersive experiences.
• Skilled in graphics technologies such as DirectX, Vulkan, CUDA, and OpenGL.
• Knowledgeable in the Android graphics framework and low-latency video streaming solutions, including NVIDIA video encoder.
• Proficient in audio/video driver interfaces across platforms and familiar with telemetry, visualization tools, and data analysis.