System Software Engineer, Profiler - GPU

NVIDIA develops technologies for automotive, virtual reality, gaming, deep learning, and high-performance computing. The System Software Engineer will develop GPU performance foundation libraries, assembly tests, and validation frameworks for Nsight developer tools while collaborating with hardware architecture teams. The role also involves debugging instruction events, analyzing performance, and documenting tool workflows.

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