NVIDIA · 7 hours ago
System Software Engineer, Profiler - GPU
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$152K/yr - $242K/yr
5+ years expNVIDIA is a leading company in the technology sector, focusing on groundbreaking products in Automotive, VR, Gaming, Deep Learning, and High Performance Computing. They are seeking a System Software Engineer to develop software that empowers GPU application developers, contributing to performance analysis capabilities and foundational software libraries for developer tools.
AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Consumer ElectronicsFoundational AIGPUHardwareSoftwareVirtual Reality
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain GPU performance foundation libraries for Nsight tools with focus on high fidelity hardware events and counters
Develop and implement GPU assembly tests
Build and maintain a test validation framework written primarily in CUDA and GPU Assembly
Utilize emulators to debug and verify instruction events
Document tools use cases and data processing workflows to facilitate architectural explorations
Qualification
Required
B.S. EE/CS (or equivalent experience) and 5+ years of experience or MS with 2+ years' experience, or Ph.D
Strong programming ability in C, C++, and scripting languages such as Python
Good understanding or prior experience with low level assembly code
Solid understanding of hardware pipeline and execution unit instruction pipeline concepts, with a willingness to work at a detailed implementation level
Knowledge of hardware-software co-design principles and practices
Experience with performance analysis and optimization of software on hardware accelerators
Experience with developing on simulators and emulators
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
Preferred
Shown knowledge of compute (CUDA/OpenCL), modern graphics (DirectX12, OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal), or DL frameworks (PyTorch/JAX)
Prior experience authoring developer tools, particularly for GPUs, games, pro visualization, or compute workloads
Knowledge of performance analysis, particularly of GPU applications
Experience in driver development
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NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.
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