# Senior System Software Engineer - Performance

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $95,000–$150,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're searching for a highly motivated, technical engineer to join the Tegra system-on-chip (SoC) software organization. You will work on key aspects of our ARM SW ecosystem and system software architecture. With a targeted charter to enable best-in-class datacenter-scale performance and efficiency for our next generation of datacenter products, including CPUs and CPU+GPU Superchips.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Design, develop, test, and optimize software for our next-generation SoCs. In both pre-silicon and post-silicon phases of execution.

- Review architectural performance bottlenecks for various system wide work loads. Identify HW/SW policies to drive performance and performance/watt leadership.

- Using strong communication skills, build and drive architecture, analysis documents and communications to internal and/or external audiences about our technology.

- Competitive analysis comparing uArchitecture & workload performance metrics on NVIDIA's ARM SoCs against emerging processors from other silicon vendors.

- Influence and drive full-stack adoption of performance optimizations and standard methodologies across NVIDIA SW products & OSS SDKs

**Requirements:**

- BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree (or equivalent experience).

- 6+ years of relevant computer architecture or SW development experience.

- Proven leadership skills and strong ownership on past projects.

- Hands on technical experience and demonstrated excellence in an environment 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.

- Strong stills in performance analysis, data analysis and performance optimization.

**Nice to Have:**

- Deep expertise in ARM architecture and SW ecosystem.

- Proficient in analyzing, debugging and tuning performance of complex system software stacks.

- Experience with CPU server system workloads and performance analysis.

- Familiarity with CUDA programming and/or GPUs.

- Experience with HPC or large-scale computing environments.

## Skills

### Required
- ARM architecture
- SW ecosystem
- multicore hardware
- operating systems design
- concurrency
- virtual memory
- caching
- interrupts
- device drivers
- real-time programming
- performance analysis
- data analysis
- performance optimization

### Nice to have
- CUDA programming
- GPUs
- HPC
- large-scale computing environments

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