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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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As a Senior System Software Engineer - GPU SW, you will provide technical leadership for security and architecture initiatives across production GPU kernel drivers, embedded software, and next-generation platforms. You will architect, design, implement, and verify security features while driving secure-design practices across code and development processes. Your daily work involves conducting hardware and software security reviews, identifying vulnerabilities, and debugging complex issues across operating-system kernels, hardware interfaces, and virtualization layers to balance performance with reliability for datacenter and inference workloads. The role requires expertise in C programming, low-level driver development, and system-level debugging within Linux, Windows, Android, or ChromeOS environments. You will leverage knowledge of computer architecture, including processors, caches, and memory protection, while addressing security challenges inherent in GPU-driver architectures, embedded firmware, and resource-constrained systems.
C
C++
RTOS
Hypervisor
Embedded Software
Virtualization
Tegra SoC
Firmware
Formal Methods
ISO 26262
ISO 21434
ASPICE
Systems Programming
Hardware-assisted Virtualization
C
Python
Ada
SPARK
RTOS
QNX
Linux
ARM Architecture
Hypervisors
Formal Methods
TLA+
ISO 26262
ISO 21434
I/O Virtualization
BSP
Firmware
GenAI
System Software