Senior System Software Engineer – Performance

NVIDIA

Engineer developing and optimizing software for NVIDIA's next-generation SoCs. Involving architecture review, performance analysis, and leading optimizations.

Posted 5/25/2026full-timeRemote • California, Colorado, Oregon, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $184,000 - $287,500 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, develop, test, and optimize software for our next-generation SoCs.
Review architectural performance bottlenecks for various system wide work loads.
Identify HW/SW policies to drive performance and performance/watt leadership.
Using strong communication skills, build and drive architecture, analysis documents and communications to internal and/or external audiences about our technology.
Competitive analysis comparing uArchitecture & workload performance metrics on NVIDIA's ARM SoCs against emerging processors from other silicon vendors.
Influence and drive full-stack adoption of performance optimizations and best practices across NVIDIA SW products & OSS SDKs

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree (or equivalent experience).
6+ years of relevant computer architecture or SW development experience.
Proven leadership skills and strong ownership on past projects.
Hands on technical experience and demonstrated excellence in an environment with complex software and hardware designs.
Strong understanding of multicore hardware, operating systems design, concurrency, virtual memory, caching, interrupts, device drivers and real-time programming.
Strong stills in performance analysis, data analysis and performance optimization.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity and benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

software developmentperformance optimizationdata analysismulticore hardwareoperating systems designconcurrencyvirtual memorycachingdevice driversreal-time programming

Soft Skills

strong communication skillsleadership skillsownershiptechnical excellence

Certifications

BS degree in Computer EngineeringMS degree in Computer Science