Senior System Software Engineer - GPU at Nvidia Corporation in Santa Clara, California

Job Description:

NVIDIA is searching for a highly motivated, creative engineer to join the GPU Software team. As a GPU system software engineer, you will work with a team of highly talented software and hardware engineers involving a wide variety of technologies. As someone who is hardworking and passionate about their work, you will design key aspects of our production GPU kernel drivers and embedded SW. You should demonstrate the ability to excel in an environment with sophisticated software and hardware interactions.

What you'll be doing:

• Define, design, develop and verify features for our GPUs; collaborating with hardware engineers and fellow software engineers
  
  


• You will follow the devices all the way through the development process to the customer desktops, notebooks, workstations, and gaming console products that are used throughout the world
  
  


• Heavily involved with the early modeling and simulation required to create our groundbreaking products
  
  


• Multiple opportunities to collaborate and communicate effectively with teams from all around the globe
  
  

What we need to see:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree (or equivalent experience)
  
  


• Strong C programming skills as well as having shown initiative in pursuing independent coding projects
  
  


• Familiarity with computer system architecture, microprocessor, and microcontroller fundamentals (caches, buses, memory controllers, DMA, etc.)
  
  


• Strong Operating systems fundamentals with Kernel experience on Linux, Android, Chrome, or Windows systems
  
  


• 3+ years of meaningful software development experience
  
  

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Background and strength with complex system-level debugging is invaluable
  
  


• Deep understanding of memory management and virtualization concepts
  
  


• Familiarity with kernel level security concepts
  
  


• Experience with embedded system SW concepts, e.g.: RTOS and overlay programming models
  
  

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers. Nvidia is also an equal opportunity employer. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people on the planet working for us. If you're creative, passionate and self-motivated, we want to hear from you! NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) 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.