Drimva

NVIDIA

Senior Systems Software Engineer, Workload Systems Engineering

$184K–$356K

US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026

Experience
Over 8 years.
Education
Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

About the job

Improves the infrastructure and workflows used to run engineering build, simulation, and validation workloads, making them faster, more reliable, and easier to diagnose.

What you'll do

  • Build self-service configuration, validation, and diagnostic tools for infrastructure workflows.
  • Benchmark and investigate workload performance and reliability using profiling, metrics, traces, and controlled experiments.
  • Implement and validate infrastructure improvements with application, build/CI, remote-execution, and infrastructure teams.

What they ask for

  • Over 8 years of software engineering experience in production compute infrastructure, distributed systems, large-scale build and test systems, or comparable systems software.
  • Hands-on experience debugging complex performance or reliability issues across software and hardware boundaries.
  • Proficiency in a systems programming or automation language and experience delivering tested production-infrastructure changes.
  • In-depth Linux experience and proficiency in at least one listed area: GPU systems and drivers, scheduling and resource management, remote execution or CI infrastructure, storage and data paths, or host and container infrastructure.

Nice to have

  • Experience with GPU sharing and isolation, CUDA execution behavior, MIG or MPS, GPU driver diagnostics, or high-performance computing workloads.
  • Experience with workload placement, CPU and GPU concurrency, NUMA, cloud-instance benchmarking, or cost and performance tradeoffs.

Pay

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

Tools

Linux, CUDA, MIG, MPS, Bazel

AI focus

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes; the role's duties do not specify AI work.

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First seen Oct 20, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)