Senior Software Engineer - CUDA Driver

Nvidia

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On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$152,000–$241,500 / yr
Posted
57 days ago
Closes
Jun 15, 2026

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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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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer - CUDA Driver

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NVIDIA is hiring senior engineers to join its CUDA driver team, where you will work on innovative software features that enhance the performance of NVIDIA hardware in areas like deep learning, scientific research, and gaming. Your role involves collaborating with hardware architects and external partners to advance the CUDA architecture by evangelizing new features, architecting solutions, and implementing improvements to APIs and programming models. You will also build and maintain performance modeling tools. Ideal candidates have a strong background in systems software development, including experience with C programming, operating system interfaces, and HW/SW co-design. Familiarity with parallel computing, Linux systems software, distributed systems, and deep learning frameworks is beneficial.

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C CUDA Linux Python Docker Kubernetes Git CI/CD Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL AWS Azure GitHub Jenkins

What you'll do

  • Evangelize, architect, and implement new CUDA features.
  • Collaborate with hardware architects to define improvements to CUDA APIs.
  • Build and maintain performance and precision modeling for software solutions.
  • Design complex software stacks including kernel mode components and compilers.
  • Develop SW programming model exposures for HW features using emulation/simulation.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of relevant experience in developing systems software.
  • Strong C programming skills and experience designing, debugging complex software stacks.
  • Experience with operating system interfaces for threads, process control, virtual memory.
  • Understanding of system-level architecture including interconnects, memory hierarchy, interrupts.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

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