Senior Systems Software Engineer, CUDA Driver

NVIDIA

Senior Systems Software Engineer working on the CUDA Driver at NVIDIA. Collaborating across teams to deliver features and improvements for NVIDIA hardware performance in computation workloads.

Posted 4/17/2026full-timeCalifornia, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $184,000 - $287,500 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

use your design abilities, coding expertise, and creativity to deliver the best compute platform in the world
craft elegant solutions to exciting problems
shape the future direction of CUDA as you collaborate with your peers across NVIDIA
evangelize, architect, and implement new features
coordinate and drive development efforts across multiple teams
help define forward-looking improvements to the CUDA APIs and programming model
write effective, maintainable, and well-tested code
develop code for multiple operating systems

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)
Strong C and C++ programming skills
Minimum of 7 years of related development experience (multiple positions for varying experience levels open)
Experience driving projects across multiple teams
Experience working with large codebases
Background with operating system interfaces for threads, process control, and virtual memory
Experience writing and debugging multithreaded programs
Good written communication as well as presentation skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

CC++CUDAmultithreadingoperating systemscode debuggingAPI developmentsoftware architecturecode maintainabilitysoftware testing

Soft Skills

communicationpresentationcollaborationcreativityproblem-solvingproject managementleadershipcoordinationteamworkevangelism

Certifications

BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer ScienceBS in Electrical EngineeringMS in Electrical Engineering