# System Software Engineer – Data Center Compute Diagnostics

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Durham, NC
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a system software engineer to develop low-level diagnostic software for next-generation data center GPUs and rack-scale AI systems.

The successful candidate will own well-scoped components of the diagnostic software from design through implementation, validation, productization, and field support. They will collaborate with hardware architects, driver developers, silicon-validation engineers, manufacturing teams, and field engineers to bring up new hardware and diagnose difficult system failures.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Develop diagnostic and stress software in C/C++ and Python for complex hardware systems.

- Collaborate with hardware blocks, firmware, Linux device drivers, registers, telemetry, and low-level debugging tools.

- Bring up and validate new silicon and system features using pre-production hardware and software.

- Create targeted tests for compute engines, memory and cache subsystems, DMA engines, PCIe/NVLink interfaces, power, and thermal behavior.

- Investigate hardware and software failures involving memory errors, ECC, data integrity, performance, thermals, voltage/frequency behavior, and high-speed interfaces.

- Contribute to diagnostic and stress workloads ranging from low-level tests for GPU hardware to higher-level AI workloads.

- Use modern development and analysis tools, including AI-assisted tools, to accelerate coding, debugging, test creation, and failure analysis.

**Requirements:**

- BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

- 5+ years of experience in embedded software, firmware, Linux device drivers, systems software, hardware validation, diagnostics, or silicon bring-up.

- Strong programming skills in C and C++, plus working proficiency in Python.

- Experience developing software that interacts with hardware, firmware, device drivers, hardware registers, or low-level interfaces.

- Experience creating diagnostics, validation tests, stress tests, manufacturing tests, or other software used to isolate hardware or system failures.

- Understanding of fundamental computer architecture concepts such as memory, caches, interrupts, DMA, buses, and device I/O.

- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, including the ability to investigate failures across hardware and software boundaries.

- Ability to take ownership of a well-scoped problem and drive it to completion while collaborating with a technical lead and multi-functional teams.

- Good written and verbal communication skills.

NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package, including equity and benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- Python
- embedded software
- firmware
- Linux device drivers
- systems software
- hardware validation
- diagnostics
- silicon bring-up
- computer architecture

### Nice to have
- GPU
- CUDA
- GEMM

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