You and your teammates will own every part of the engineering mission of cuEST - from idea to shipped CUDA-X library.
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Senior Systems Software Engineer, Accelerated Kubernetes Performance and Scale - DGX Cloud
NVIDIA · 15d ago
Lead end‑to‑end performance and scalability analysis across the Kubernetes‑based accelerated runtime stack (control and data planes), including NVIDIA components such as GPU Operator, Network Operator, node-feature-discovery, topograph, dra-driver-nvidia-gpu, and nvsentinel,…
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Build storage technologies, client libraries, and filesystem frameworks that help AI workloads access data across object stores, file systems, and hybrid cloud infrastructure.
- 5+ years experience
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Crafting and implementing high-performance Vision AI pipelines for real-time and streaming scenarios using brand-new computer vision and deep learning models.
- Pays more than 96% of Senior Software Engineer jobs
- 12+ years experience
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You'll be working in a distributed team that explores innovative ways to make GPU- and DPU-accelerated applications easier to develop, deploy, and monitor on the latest and greatest NVIDIA hardware.
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Design, develop, and verify features for next-generation GPU driver architecture in close collaboration with hardware and software engineering teams.
- 5+ years experience
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Lead toolchain, build, code-health, and performance-workflow adoption projects across large software components. Evaluate and deploy supported GCC and LLVM/Clang toolchains, compiler options, linkers, sysroots, and cross-compilation configurations.
- 8+ years experience
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Design, implement, and deploy novel algorithms for spatial understanding, working on problems ranging from SLAM, structure-from-motion, optical flow, scene flow, and object reconstruction to training VLMs on a wide range of spatial reasoning skills.
- 8+ years experience
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Design, build, and improve production-quality systems for world models, simulation, rendering, and real-time inference from prototype through release.
- 8+ years experience
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Architect, design, develop, and debug system software for NVIDIA Halos OS across QNX, Linux, and hypervisor-based environments. Design and develop BSP, boot, driver, device-management, diagnostics, and platform software for NVIDIA SoCs and edge AI platforms.
- 8+ years experience
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Architect, design, develop, and debug system software for NVIDIA Halos OS across QNX, Linux, and hypervisor-based environments. Design and develop BSP, boot, driver, device-management, networking, diagnostics and platform software for NVIDIA SoCs and edge AI platforms.
- 8+ years experience
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Design and implement idiomatic Rust libraries and APIs for foundational CUDA functionality and GPU algorithms. Build safe Rust abstractions over native CUDA and C/C++ interfaces. Develop and maintain the C/C++ components required to support Rust-facing functionality.
- Pays more than 85% of Senior Software Engineer jobs
- 12+ years experience
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You will compose and build the architecture behind next-generation self-driving vehicle technology. Work on Prediction, Decision, Planning and Control architecture. Have exposure to Classical safety stack. Build robust system-level safety and fallback strategies.
- 8+ years experience
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Developing software to enable efficient network design, deployment and day 2 management. Building product focused software solutions, used by internal and external customers.
- Pays more than 72% of Senior Software Engineer jobs
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Design and evolve middleware APIs for buffer sharing, cross-engine synchronization, streaming, and inter-process communication — with a relentless focus on developer experience, simplicity, and long-term maintainability.
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Design, develop, test, and optimize system software and firmware for SoCs used in O-RAN and cellular infrastructure. Develop power-management policies and performance optimizations across CPU, GPU, accelerator, memory, interconnect, I/O, and networking subsystems.
- 5+ years experience
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Set technical direction for major platform areas, leading the architecture, roadmap, and long-term health across multiple product cycles. Design and lead infrastructure initiatives that span team boundaries, building alignment with firmware, hardware, and business partners.
- Pays more than 96% of Senior Software Engineer jobs
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Lead the design, development, and deployment of AIOps & Observability platforms, including metrics, logs, traces, events, alerts, dashboards, and visualizations.
- Pays more than 89% of Senior Software Engineer jobs
- 12+ years experience
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Design, develop, and validate SOC & GPU Boot and Security software across Automotive, Embedded, and Data Center platforms. Participate actively in the new silicon lifecycle, spanning pre-silicon simulation/emulation to silicon power-on bring-up phases.
- 5+ years experience
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Play a key role in optimizing system software for Nvidia automotive performance platforms with Safe RTOS. Collaborate closely with Hardware Architecture, DriveOS, Power, and Test teams to track key boot & runtime performance benchmarks.
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