# Senior System Software Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Sr. Systems Software Engineer for the Apache Spark Acceleration group. The successful candidate will enable C++ native execution of Spark operations on CUDA, develop CUDA/C++ libraries to accelerate DataFrames and I/O operations, and collaborate with distributed systems teams.

**Responsibilities:**

- Enable C++ native execution of Spark operations on CUDA

- Develop CUDA/C++ libraries to accelerate DataFrames and I/O operations on common file formats such as Parquet, ORC and JSON

- Collaborate with distributed systems teams to craft solutions to distributed processing problems at large scale

- Work with open source communities to enhance libraries like RAPIDS, CCCL and UCX through technical discussion and code contributions

- Provide recommendations and feedback to teams regarding decisions surrounding topics such as infrastructure, continuous integration and testing strategy

- Build, test and optimize across different platforms

**Requirements:**

- 9+ years of experience in software development

- 5+ years hands-on experience with data platform development

- BS/MS/PhD in computer science or a related field (or equivalent experience)

- Proficiency in C++, Java, Scala

- Experience supporting enterprise customers

- Familiarity with the open source data platform ecosystem is a plus (Apache Spark, Velox, Presto, Apache Arrow, Apache DataFusion, etc.)

- Experience using AI tools in software development

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Java
- Scala
- Apache Spark
- CUDA
- DataFrames
- distributed systems

### Nice to have
- open source data platform ecosystem
- AI tools
- RAPIDS
- CCCL
- UCX

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