System Software Engineer – Performance

NVIDIA

System Software Engineer developing and optimizing software for NVIDIA's next-generation SoCs. Collaborating to analyze performance and deliver best-in-class datacenter products.

Posted 5/25/2026full-timeSanta Clara • California, Colorado, Oregon, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $124,000 - $195,500 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, develop, test, and optimize software for our next-generation SoCs, in both pre-silicon and post-silicon phases of execution
Analyze and identify performance bottlenecks in the SOC
Communicate analysis documents and information to internal and/or external audiences about our technology
Conduct competitive analysis comparing architecture & workload performance metrics on NVIDIA's ARM SoCs against emerging processors from other silicon vendors
Develop tools and use benchmarks to analyze performance

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree (or equivalent experience)
2+ years of relevant computer architecture or SW development experience
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
Experience in performance analysis, data analysis and performance optimization

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salaries
Comprehensive benefits package
Equity options

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Hard Skills & Tools

software developmentperformance analysisdata analysisperformance optimizationmulticore hardwareoperating systems designreal-time programmingdevice driverscachingconcurrency

Soft Skills

communicationanalysisproblem-solving

Certifications

BS in Computer EngineeringMS in Computer Science