Senior Systems Software Engineer, Compute Stack Acceleration
NVIDIA
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About the opportunity
NVIDIA is growing a senior engineering team focused on making our compute software stack first-class on NVIDIA CPU platforms.
The team turns modern toolchains, build and code-health practices, performance-analysis workflows, and optimization techniques into repeatable improvements across real software components.
We are looking for an experienced systems software engineer who can lead cross-stack engineering efforts from an ambiguous adoption problem to a measurable outcome.
You will work closely with compiler, platform, performance, library, and application teams to validate new capabilities, resolve integration blockers, produce credible before-and-after evidence, and turn successful approaches into reusable engineering practices.
Key responsibilities
- 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.
- Integrate modern toolchains and workflows into complex build systems and continuous-integration environments.
- Establish useful Clang diagnostic builds and targeted sanitizer coverage in partnership with component owners, evaluating techniques like link-time optimization, profile-guided optimization, AutoFDO, and BOLT.
- Use profiling, PMU data, flamegraphs, and binary/source analysis to identify actionable performance and code-quality findings.
- Build automation, wrappers, validation scripts, dashboards, and migration helpers, and measure changes in runtime, code size, build time, launch latency, throughput, quality, or engineering velocity.
- Drive complex blockers to the appropriate compiler, runtime, library, infrastructure, or component owner.
- Document validated approaches as reusable playbooks and communicate technical results and tradeoffs clearly to engineers and leadership.
Qualifications
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of relevant systems software engineering experience.
- Strong C and C++ development, debugging, and code-review skills.
- Strong Linux systems knowledge and hands-on experience with complex native software stacks.
- Practical experience with GCC or LLVM/Clang, linkers, compiler options, and build systems.
- Experience working in large, multi-component codebases and CI environments, and with performance profiling, root-cause analysis, and before-and-after validation.
- Ability to lead projects with substantial technical and organizational ambiguity.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and a record of effective cross-team collaboration.
Nice to have
- Experience with Arm64 systems, CPU architecture, vectorization, or SVE.
- Experience with LTO, PGO, AutoFDO, BOLT, binary optimization, or code-layout analysis.
- Hands-on experience with Clang diagnostics, AddressSanitizer, or other code-health workflows.
- Familiarity with PMU analysis, perf, flamegraphs, BRBE, SPE, ETM, or similar profiling technologies.
- Experience with cross-compilation, sysroots, large monorepositories, Perforce-scale development, or distributed build systems.
Benefits
- Eligible for equity.
- Eligible for comprehensive company benefits.
Job details
- Location: NVIDIA
- Base salary range: 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.
- Application deadline: Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 9, 2026.
- Posting type: This posting is for an existing vacancy.
About the company
NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing, and Visualization. Our invention serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services.
Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars.
NVIDIA is seeking exceptional individuals like you to help us drive the next wave of artificial intelligence.
Additional information
- NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.
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Key details from the source
- Depending on your background and project needs, your initial work may emphasize toolchain, build, and code-health adoption or profiling, optimization, and evidence-routing workflows.
- Experience turning a successful migration or optimization into a maintained workflow used by multiple teams.
- Python or other scripting experience for engineering automation and data analysis.
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