# Senior Engineering Manager

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Graphics APIs and Platforms team. The team focuses on console graphics, compute-based graphics, and Slang. You will own the team's technical direction and delivery, advancing graphics drivers, platform software, and shading language capabilities for current and next-generation GPUs.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead and develop the engineering team responsible for console graphics platforms, compute-based graphics, and Slang.

- Own the team's technical roadmap, priorities, quality, and delivery commitments.

- Advance graphics APIs and shading language capabilities to support the growing role of compute and AI in graphics.

- Drive production delivery, from hardware enablement and driver development through performance optimization, validation, and release.

- Work with GPU architects, platform teams, and console partners to define requirements and resolve challenging hardware/software integration problems.

- Strengthen the team through hiring, mentoring, and better engineering practices, including AI-assisted and agentic development.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.

- 10+ overall years of experience in graphics, GPU, or system software engineering, including 4+ years leading engineering teams.

- Deep expertise in graphics system software, with a strong background in drivers, runtimes, or graphics API implementations.

- Strong understanding of GPU architecture, graphics and compute pipelines, and how software interacts with hardware.

- Strong C/C++ programming background and experience debugging complex systems across software and hardware boundaries.

- Proven success developing engineers and leading teams that ship production-quality software.

- Hands-on experience with agentic development workflows and sound judgment about applying them to system software engineering.

- Clear communication, strong technical judgment, and disciplined execution across team boundaries.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience managing technical relationships with console or platform partners and leading system software delivery from requirements through integration, validation, and production release.

- Experience leading an open source software project, including technical direction, releases, and collaboration with external contributors.

- Deep knowledge of Vulkan, Direct3D, OpenGL, or CUDA, including driver internals and performance optimization.

- Experience with compute-based graphics pipelines, shader compilers, Slang, or shading language design.

- Experience with GPU bring-up, pre-silicon development, or hardware/software co-design.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive salaries

- Generous benefits package (visit www.nvidiabenefits.com)

- Equity eligibility

**Salary Range:**

- 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD per year

## Skills

### Required
- Computer Science
- Computer Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Graphics system software
- GPU architecture
- C/C++ programming
- Agentic development workflows

### Nice to have
- Vulkan
- Direct3D
- OpenGL
- CUDA
- Compute-based graphics pipelines
- Shader compilers
- Slang
- Shading language design
- GPU bring-up
- Pre-silicon development
- Hardware/software co-design

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