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NVIDIA

Technical Engineer - Tegra System-on-Chip (SoC) Software Organization

NVIDIA
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senior full-time $124,000 - $195,500 per year

First indexed 14 Oct 2026

Description

NVIDIA is seeking 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, focusing on enabling best-in-class datacenter-scale performance and efficiency for our next-generation datacenter products.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, test, and optimize software for our next-generation SoCs, in both pre-silicon and post-silicon phases of execution.
  • Analyze and identify performance bottlenecks in the SOC.
  • Communicate effectively with internal and external audiences about our technology.
  • Conduct competitive analysis comparing uArchitecture and workload performance metrics on NVIDIA's ARM SoCs against emerging processors from other silicon vendors.
  • Develop tools and use benchmarks to analyze performance.

Requirements:

  • BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree (or equivalent experience).
  • 2+ years of relevant computer architecture or SW development experience.
  • 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.
  • Experience in performance analysis, data analysis, and performance optimization.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 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.

Benefits:

  • Highly competitive salary: $124,000 - $195,500 per year
  • Comprehensive benefits package, including equity
This listing is enriched and indexed by YubHub. To apply, use the employer's original posting: https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NVIDIAExternalCareerSite/job/US-CA-Santa-Clara/System-Software-Engineer---Performance_JR2027451