System Software Engineer, Profiler - GPU

NVIDIA is a leading company in the technology sector, focusing on groundbreaking products for Automotive, VR, Gaming, Deep Learning, and High Performance Computing. They are seeking a System Software Engineer to develop software that empowers GPU application developers and contributes to foundational software libraries for developer tools.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain GPU performance foundation libraries for Nsight tools with focus 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 MS with 2+ years' experience, or Ph.D
• Strong programming ability in C, C++, and scripting languages such as Python
• Good understanding or prior experience with low level assembly code
• Solid understanding of hardware pipeline and execution unit instruction pipeline concepts, with a willingness to work at a detailed implementation level
• 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 the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Shown 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