System Software Engineer - Performance

Job Title

System Software Engineer - Performance

Role Summary

Join the Tegra SoC system-software team to develop and optimize system software for next-generation datacenter CPUs and CPU+GPU Superchips. Focus on performance analysis, tooling, and system-level optimization across pre-silicon and post-silicon phases.

Experience Level

Entry-level / Early career. Typical hire has 2+ years of relevant computer architecture or software development experience.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include designing system software, measuring and improving performance, and communicating technical findings.

• Design, develop, test, and optimize software for next-generation SoCs in both pre-silicon and post-silicon phases.
• Analyze and identify performance bottlenecks across SoC hardware and software.
• Develop and use benchmarks and tooling to analyze performance.
• Produce analysis documents and communicate results to internal and external audiences.
• Perform competitive analysis of microarchitecture and workload performance against other vendors.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience.

• 2+ years of relevant computer architecture or software development experience.
• Hands-on experience working 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.

Nice-to-have:

• Expertise in ARM architecture and the ARM software ecosystem.
• Experience debugging and tuning performance of complex system software stacks and CPU server workloads.
• Familiarity with CUDA programming, GPUs, HPC, or large-scale computing environments.

Education Requirements

BS or MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field - or equivalent practical experience.

About the Company

Company: NVIDIA

Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, USA

NVIDIA is a global leader in accelerated computing, renowned for its innovative solutions in AI and digital twins that transform diverse industries. The company specializes in networking technologies, providing end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet solutions for servers and storage that optimize performance and scalability. NVIDIA serves sectors such as high-performance computing, enterprise data centers, and cloud computing, constantly reinventing its products and services to stay ahead in the market.