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NVIDIA

Senior GPU Platforms Engineer

NVIDIA
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senior full-time $184,000 - $287,500 per year

First indexed 1 Oct 2026

Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior GPU Platforms Engineer to join their innovative team. The successful candidate will work on groundbreaking GPU & SOC systems and platform software, driving the next era of accelerated computing.

Job Summary: As a Senior GPU Platforms Engineer, you will be part of a dedicated team at the forefront of GPU & SOC technology. You will work on platform software, including kernel device driver development, firmware/BIOS interactions, health monitoring, and system-level features on new GPU/SOC platforms and products.

Responsibilities:

  • System Software Generalist: Take ownership of platform software, including kernel device driver development, firmware/BIOS interactions, health monitoring, and system-level features on new GPU/SOC platforms and products.
  • Observability stack expert: Design and develop high-performance, distributed observability platforms handling high-volume data, real-time monitoring, logging, and alerting.
  • Full stack software engineer: Develop production applications, solutions, and features for NVIDIA SOC products.
  • Collaborate with software, driver, and product/data center/cloud units to launch new GPU platforms, resolve system challenges, and improve performance, features, and stability.
  • Engage in code reviews and contribute to substantial production codebases using C/C++ and data pipeline, business intelligence skills.
  • Understand how AI workloads map onto NVIDIA architectures and how these architectural features impact latency, throughput, and cost.
  • Develop and sustain in-depth knowledge of OS and system software, concentrating on Linux internals, device drivers, kernel/user boundaries, concurrency, and performance profiling.
  • Apply expertise in Operating Systems, Computer architecture to manage CPU–GPU interactions, PCIe, memory hierarchy, interrupts, and firmware/bootloaders.

Requirements:

  • BS/MS/PhD (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science or a related degree, with multiple years of experience in systems, platform, embedded, or GPU software roles.
  • At least 10 years of experience in developing SOC systems and platform software.
  • Strong hands-on experience developing system software, covering Linux internals, device drivers, kernel/user boundaries, concurrency, and performance profiling.
  • Observability expertise: Hands-on experience with building modern observability architectures, distributed systems design, and modern business intelligence and analytics stack.
  • Strong full-stack fluency: Proficiency in high-performance, secure, production software stack, backend systems programming.
  • Solid understanding of Advanced Operating Systems, Advanced Database, Computer Architecture, and Distributed systems.
  • AI/ML fluency: Experience developing AI/ML applications, integrating with various features and applications.
  • Proven record of designing scalable, secure solutions for products.

Benefits:

  • Highly competitive salaries
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Equity eligibility
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development

Salary Range:

  • $184,000 - $287,500 per year (Level 4)
  • $224,000 - $356,500 per year (Level 5)
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