Senior Systems Software Engineer, GPU Performance at Scale
Nvidia
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This role pays less than 54% of similar roles. Most pay $177,250–$235,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $202k versus about $206k for comparable roles.
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AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) is a semiconductor company that develops high-performance processors, graphics cards, and adaptive computing solutions for gaming, data centers, and embedded markets. Industry: Semiconductors
Amd currently has 367 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $166,400–$249,600 across 367 roles with salary data.
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As a Senior Datacenter GPU Firmware Engineer on the Data Center Firmware Application team, you will support CPU and GPU deployments across Cloud, HPC, and OEM segments. You will collaborate with partners to manage bring-up, validation, and deployment of Instinct Accelerators on next-generation server platforms. Your daily responsibilities include debugging firmware and driver issues, leading root-cause investigations, developing performance analysis tools, and optimizing the AI software stack across hardware layers. The role requires expertise in embedded systems, GPU drivers, runtimes, OS kernel internals, and microcontroller fundamentals. You will utilize C, C++, Python, and Bash within Linux environments to solve complex system challenges. Technical focus areas include server architecture, BIOS settings, boot processes, and familiarity with OpenCL, CUDA, or ROCm to ensure high-performance solutions for data center integration.
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