NVIDIA · 3 days ago
Principal System Software Engineer - CUDA Driver
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$272K/yr - $426K/yr
15+ years expNVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Visualization. They are hiring senior engineers to work on the CUDA driver, which is a core component of their platform for accelerating general purpose computation on the GPU, delivering features and improvements for a range of computational workloads.
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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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor of Science or Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
15+ years of relevant systems software development experience
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
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
Preferred
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
Some familiarity with kernel mode development
Some familiarity with C++
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NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.
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