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NVIDIA · 2 weeks ago

Senior Systems Software Engineer, Base OS - NPI

California, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$148K/yr - $288K/yr

5+ years exp

NVIDIA is known as 'the AI computing company' and is seeking to grow its team with resourceful individuals. The role of a Base OS Engineer involves developing Linux distribution images for NVIDIA GPU platforms and sustaining existing systems while collaborating with software and hardware development teams.

AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Consumer ElectronicsFoundational AIGPUHardwareSoftwareVirtual Reality

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Hiring Manager

Bella Yanovsky

Responsibilities

NVIDIA BaseOS is the Linux distribution of the NVIDIA GPU based platforms deployed in AI, Data-Analytics, Autonomous vehicle industries. Your role as a Base OS Engineer is to develop the Ubuntu and RHEL based OS image flavors across platforms

Your role as a Base OS Engineer will also include sustaining the existing NVIDIA DGX and HGX systems

Work closely with System/Software development teams to build the common infrastructure for automation and use the latest industry standard tools!

Work closely with Hardware and Firmware development teams to bring up new NVIDIA platforms, from power on to OS boot

Qualification

C programmingPython programmingLinux distributionOS conceptsComplex system-level debuggingPlanning skillsVirtualization conceptsLow level protocolsContainer technologiesCommunication skills

Required

BS or Masters in computer science, or related field or equivalent experience

5+ years of experience

Excellent C and Python programming skills. Your expertise in coding is essential to your success in this role

Familiarity with at least one major Linux distro (Ubuntu, RedHat, SLES) is required

Knowledge of OS concepts such as filesystems, job scheduling, device drivers, and storage, is required

Experience with complex system-level debugging is invaluable, from X/Wayland to systemd to analyzing crash dumps to install issues

Excellent communication and planning skills

Preferred

Experience creating your own Debian or RPM package and repository is highly desirable

Knowledge of virtualization concepts such as device passthrough and SR-IOV

Background in PCIe, USB, and similar low level protocols is recommended. Experience with UEFI and BMC firmware is strongly favored

Basic knowledge of tools deploying Containers or Kubernetes technologies is preferred

Having written software in GitHub with exposure to opensource development life cycle is desired

Benefits

Equity

Benefits

Company

NVIDIA

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

Founded in 1993

Santa Clara, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.nvidia.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$4.09B

Key Investors

ARPA-EARK Investment ManagementSoftBank Vision Fund

2023-05-09Grant· $5M

2022-08-09Post Ipo Equity· $65M

2021-02-18Post Ipo Equity

Leadership Team

Jensen Huang

Founder and CEO

Michael Kagan

Chief Technology Officer

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