# Senior Director of System Software Engineering

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 384,000 USD – 575,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Director of System Software Engineering to lead a world-class software organization. You will lead experienced managers and engineers responsible for graphics drivers and APIs, platform integration, and the compilers and shading languages that support them, including Slang.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Set technical strategy, roadmaps, and priorities, balancing emerging graphics capabilities with existing product commitments.

- Guide hardware/software co-design and the evolution of graphics APIs, compilers, and shading languages to bring new capabilities to developers.

- Establish an AI-friendly development model for implementation, debugging, and validation, using production results to refine and expand it across teams.

- Drive execution and production delivery of Vulkan, OpenGL, and CUDA-based graphics software, from GPU and SoC enablement through integration, optimization, validation, and release, including automotive graphics safety commitments.

- Lead engineering partnerships across NVIDIA and externally as well, aligning requirements, component ownership, integration plans, and release commitments.

- Attract, develop, and retain world-class engineering leaders while encouraging technical excellence, accountability, inclusion, and innovation.

**Requirements:**

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

- 15+ overall years of relevant management experience in system software graphics, GPU, or related platform engineering, including 8+ years leading engineering teams with senior individual contributors and managers.

- Deep expertise in graphics system software, with substantial experience in drivers, APIs, compilers, or shading languages.

- Strong understanding of GPU architecture, graphics and compute pipelines, operating systems, and hardware/software interfaces, supported by a C/C++ systems programming background.

- Outstanding record of leading software organizations through complex product cycles and shipping highly performant production-quality systems.

- Demonstrated proficiency in agentic software development, with measurable results and a track record of building team expertise.

- Strong technical judgment and communication skills, with proven success building engineering partnerships and resolving technical disagreements.

**Nice to Have:**

- Background with console platforms, pre-silicon validation, or new hardware bring-up.

- Experience advancing compute-based graphics or neural rendering from early development into production.

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

- Functional safety experience in automotive or other safety-critical software, including ISO 26262, ASIL requirements, traceability, verification evidence, or safety-qualified releases.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive salaries

- Generous benefits package (details at www.nvidiabenefits.com)

- Equity eligibility

The expected base salary range for this position is 384,000 USD – 575,000 USD.

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## Skills

### Required
- Computer Science
- Computer Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Graphics
- Graphics system software
- drivers
- APIs
- compilers
- shading languages
- GPU architecture
- graphics and compute pipelines
- operating systems
- hardware/software interfaces
- C/C++ systems programming

### Nice to have
- console platforms
- pre-silicon validation
- new hardware bring-up
- compute-based graphics
- neural rendering
- open source project leadership
- functional safety
- ISO 26262
- ASIL requirements

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