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Senior System Software Engineer, Performance - CUDA Driver

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $184,000–$184,000🗓 2026-09-02 → 2026-09-25

Core

Develop and ship performance-centric CUDA Driver features and systems software improvements to optimize AI, deep learning, HPC, and other GPU-accelerated applications.

Role type

Senior IC systems software engineer (performance optimization)

Builds

Production CUDA Driver features, programming-model capabilities, and validated optimizations for current and emerging GPU platforms

Domain

High-performance computing (HPC), AI/Deep Learning, GPU architecture, systems software

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

C/C++ systems programming, operating systems and concurrency, computer architecture, performance profiling and bottleneck analysis, cross-layer root-cause isolation, memory management optimization, CPU-GPU coordination

Preferred skills

GPU or accelerator driver development, pre-silicon analysis, hardware/software co-design, Python for data analysis, technical patenting or novel design invention

Technologies

CUDA, C/C++, Python

Responsibilities

Design and ship performance-centric CUDA Driver features from design through validation; Diagnose complex performance problems via workload analysis and cross-layer isolation; Optimize critical CUDA primitives, memory management, and interconnect paths; Establish performance goals and characterize new platforms; Translate workload evidence into API and architecture recommendations; Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions with performance data

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship

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