System Software Engineer, Profiler - GPU

At NVIDIA, we build groundbreaking products for sectors including Automotive, VR, Gaming, Deep Learning, and High Performance Computing.

As a system software engineer in the Developer Tools group, you will develop software empowering GPU application developers to build outstanding compute applications deployed on large distributed environments.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain GPU performance foundation libraries for Nsight tools focusing on high-fidelity hardware events and counters.
• Develop and implement GPU assembly tests.
• Build and maintain a test validation framework written primarily in CUDA and GPU Assembly.
• Utilize emulators to debug and verify instruction events.
• Document tools use cases and data processing workflows to facilitate architectural explorations.

Requirements:

• B.S. EE/CS or equivalent experience and 5+ years of experience, or M.S. with 2+ years' experience, or Ph.D.
• Strong programming ability in C, C++, and scripting languages such as Python.
• Understanding of low-level assembly code.
• Solid understanding of hardware pipeline and execution unit instruction pipeline concepts.
• Knowledge of hardware-software co-design principles and practices.
• Experience with performance analysis and optimization of software on hardware accelerators.
• Experience with developing on simulators and emulators.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of compute (CUDA/OpenCL), modern graphics (DirectX12, OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal), or DL frameworks (PyTorch/JAX).
• Prior experience authoring developer tools, particularly for GPUs, games, pro visualization, or compute workloads.
• Knowledge of performance analysis, particularly of GPU applications.
• Experience in driver development.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.