System Software Manager, Computer Vision at Nvidia Corporation in Santa Clara, California

Job Description:

We are looking for a System Software Manager - Computer Vision!

As the top tier artificial intelligence computing company, we are paving the way with innovations in self-driving cars, machine learning, super-computing, gaming, and visualization. We are building a team that will truly change the world, and we would love for you to join us. We are hiring for the position of system software manager to lead our team working on NVIDIA's Vision Programming Interface (VPI) library. This crucial role will give you an excellent opportunity to make an impact on the industry through interactions with other industry experts, with the goal to create highly optimized computer vision (CV) and image processing algorithms running on the newest and the most powerful hardware accelerators.

You should have a proven and deep understanding of software development principles, embedded processes and various system SW layers. You will need to demonstrate strong industry experience in delivering high quality and highly performant production system software. The ability to work in a dynamic and diverse team is required. Strong interpersonal skills and a real passion for working as a team are critical. If this sounds like a fun challenge, we want to hear from you!

What you'll be doing:

• Lead a team of skilled software engineers to develop new functionality and improve existing functionality of VPI lib and make it more applicable to other areas such as Deep Learning.
  
  


• Support internal and external customers as they develop solutions that use VPI
  
  


• You will be both a technical and managerial leader for the VPI software team.
  
  


• Create and own team strategy, roadmaps, and schedules.
  
  


• Provide clear direction and goals to your team and interact with other teams across Nvidia.
  
  


• Provide architectural and technical guidance to the engineers in the team and ensure that the best engineering practices are followed.
  
  


• Review and identify improvement opportunities in established processes, infrastructure, and practices to ensure the teams are executing in the most efficient and transparent manner.
  
  


• Collaborate with peer engineering teams, and program/product management to ensure that product requirements, goals and objectives are met or exceeded.
  
  


• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of the team members
  
  

What we need to see:

• Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Computer Vision or related field or equivalent experience with 10+ years of overall experience
  
  


• 6+ years of industry experience with a proven record of leading software teams to deliver stable, well tested, performant, and maintainable software products
  
  


• Good understanding of mobile/embedded architectures
  
  


• Strong knowledge of operating system internals, memory management, and system software concepts.
  
  


• Experience in developing software for high-performance parallel hardware architectures
  
  


• Proven experience in leading multi-functional software teams and delivering high quality production software in a fast-paced environment
  
  


• Experience in building and motivating teams of system software and algorithm developers
  
  


• Outstanding leadership, communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills with the ability to successfully lead technical experts in highly dynamic matrix organization
  
  

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Background in image processing, computer graphics or computer vision
  
  


• Familiarity with safety software and safety development processes
  
  


• Experience with ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 or equivalent quality/safety processes.
  
  

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and talented people in the world working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, 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. Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars. NVIDIA is looking for great people like you to help us accelerate the next wave of artificial intelligence.

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.