Senior System Software Engineer, Performance - CUDA Driver

What you'll do

• Design, ship, and validate performance-focused CUDA Driver features and programming-model capabilities.
• Analyze workloads, measure and model performance, isolate root causes, and optimize CUDA primitives, memory movement, CPU–GPU coordination, and interconnect paths.
• Set performance direction, guide platform readiness, influence software and hardware recommendations, and mentor engineers.

What they ask for

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field—or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 7+ years of relevant systems-software development experience.
• Production C/C++ systems-programming experience delivering substantial features, optimizations, or fixes in a complex codebase.
• Strong operating systems, concurrency, computer architecture, and software performance-engineering foundations.

Nice to have

• GPU or accelerator drivers, runtimes, kernel software, firmware, compilers, pre-silicon analysis, platform bring-up, performance modeling, or hardware/software co-design experience.
• Systems-level performance work in AI/DL, HPC, graphics, automotive, robotics, or similar workloads; Python or another scripting language for experimentation, analysis, or visualization.

Pay

184,000 USD - 287,500 USD base salary (Level 4); 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD base salary (Level 5)

Tools

C/C++, CUDA, Python