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Principal System Software Engineer - CUDA Driver

NVIDIA

$272,000 - $425,500
Oct 3, 2025
Santa Clara, CA, US
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NVIDIA is looking to hire senior engineers to enhance the CUDA driver, a critical component for accelerating general-purpose computation on GPUs. The goal is to improve the realization of NVIDIA hardware potential across various computational workloads like deep learning, scientific computation, self-driving cars, video games, and virtual reality.

Requirements

  • Strong C programming skills
  • Experience designing, debugging, and maintaining complex software stacks
  • Experience with operating system interfaces for threads, process control, and virtual memory
  • Experience with HW/SW co-design, perf. modeling using emulation/simulation, creating SW programming model exposures for HW features
  • You have an understanding of system level architecture, such as interconnects, memory hierarchy, interrupts, and memory-mapped IO
  • Designing and implementing drivers programming rich HW acceleration engines and software verification testplans.
  • Knowledge of CPU, GPU architectures, memory coherence and consistency models

Responsibilities

  • You will evangelize, architect, and implement new CUDA features
  • You'll oversee and drive development efforts across multiple teams
  • Collaborate with members of hardware architecture teams
  • Help define forward-looking improvements to the CUDA APIs and programming model
  • Design and maintain performance and precision modeling
  • Write effective, maintainable, and well-tested code
  • Develop code for multiple operating systems

Other

  • 15+ years of relevant systems software development experience
  • Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communications skills with a capability to achieve objectives under tight deadlines
  • Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively guide and influence within a dynamic matrix environment
  • Some familiarity with kernel mode development
  • Some familiarity with C++