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May 25, 2026
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System Software Engineer - Performance

United States
Full-time
Remote
$124K/yr - $196K/yr
Entry, Mid Level
NVIDIA is a leader in computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing, now focusing on AI to redefine computing. The role involves designing, developing, and optimizing software for next-generation system-on-chips (SoCs) to enhance performance and efficiency in datacenter products.
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Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, and optimize software for our next-generation SoCs, in both pre-silicon and post-silicon phases of execution
  • Analyze and identify performance bottlenecks in the SOC
  • Using strong communication skills, analysis documents and communications to internal and/or external audiences about our technology
  • Competitive analysis comparing uArchitecture & workload performance metrics on NVIDIA's ARM SoCs against emerging processors from other silicon vendors
  • Develop tools and use benchmarks to analyze performance

Qualification

Required

  • BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree (or equivalent experience)
  • 2+ years of relevant computer architecture or SW development experience
  • Hands on technical experience and demonstrated excellence in an environment with complex software and hardware designs
  • Strong understanding of multicore hardware, operating systems design, concurrency, virtual memory, caching, interrupts, device drivers and real-time programming
  • Experience in performance analysis, data analysis and performance optimization

Preferred

  • Expertise in ARM architecture and SW ecosystem
  • Proficient in analyzing, debugging and tuning performance of complex system software stacks
  • Experience with CPU server system workloads and performance analysis
  • Familiarity with CUDA programming and/or GPUs
  • Experience with HPC or large-scale computing environments

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits
NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.
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