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About Nvidia
Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing
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The Senior Director, Graphics Systems Software leads a world-class software organization responsible for graphics drivers, APIs, platform integration, compilers, and shading languages like Slang. This role involves setting technical strategies and roadmaps to balance emerging graphics capabilities with production commitments across compute graphics, automotive, robotics, and consumer platforms. You will drive the execution of Vulkan, OpenGL, and CUDA-based graphics software, managing GPU and SoC enablement, optimization, and validation while ensuring automotive graphics safety commitments. The position requires deep expertise in GPU architecture, graphics and compute pipelines, operating systems, and hardware/software interfaces using C/C++ systems programming. You will establish an agentic engineering model for implementation and debugging, leading engineering partnerships to align requirements and release commitments for highly performant production-quality systems.
C++
C
Vulkan
OpenGL
DirectX
Metal
GPU Architecture
Graphics Drivers
Operating Systems
Linux
Shader Compilation
Memory Management
Profiling
Automated Validation
AI-assisted Development
C++
C
Vulkan
Direct3D
OpenGL
CUDA
Slang
GPU Architecture
Driver Development
Shader Compilers
Graphics APIs
System Software
Hardware/Software Co-design
Performance Optimization
Agentic Development