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Nvidia

Senior System Software Engineer - GPU Server

Santa Clara, California, United States

We are seeking software engineers to work on next-generation graphics and computing products . Our charter is to develop the most …

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Senior System Software Engineer, Speech AI

Pune, Maharashtra, India

… people in the world. Join us at the forefront of technological advancement. NVIDIA is looking for a Senior System Software Engineer with deep expertise in speech technologies to support enterprise and developer customers. This role …

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Senior System Software Engineer - AV Platform

Santa Clara, California, United States

encompasses working with various teams across the stack, from platform and embedded software to cloud infrastructure, underpinned by safety and performance. It extends an opportunity to contribute to …

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Senior System Software Engineer, CUDA - Tegra

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

… As a part of our team, you will apply your expertise to design innovative solutions in a critical piece of system software at NVIDIA. Specifically - Build and maintain features in CUDA for NVIDIA Tegra platforms …

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Nvidia

Senior System Software Engineer - SoC Power

Santa Clara, California, United States +1 location

… to be part of an exceptionally talented team that is driving the next era of computing? NVIDIA's Tegra software organization is seeking motivated System Software Engineers to contribute to our innovative projects. This …

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Senior System Software Engineer - Local AI

Pune, Maharashtra, India

… and practical deployment on resource-constrained platforms What You'll Be Doing: Partner with NVIDIA's software, research, architecture, and product leadership, as well as external partners such as Microsoft, to align …

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Senior System Software Engineer - AV Platform

Santa Clara, California, United States

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Senior System Software Engineer, Agentic Retrieval

Santa Clara, California, United States +4 locations

… of technological advancement in intelligent assistants and information retrieval. NVIDIA is looking for a System Software Engineer - Agentic Retrieval to develop pipelines for indexing and querying multi-modal content. …

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Senior System Software Engineer, GPU Firmware

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India +1 location

Do you enjoy hacking and tinkering at the lowest levels of software? Are you capable of designing and implementing clever firmware solutions in heavily resource-constrained …

Added Oct 29, 2026

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KLA

System Software Engineer (HPC)

Milpitas, California, United States

Full time
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Pay posted by employer$136,300–$231,700 per year

… of KLA’s metrology and inspection products, is looking for the best and the brightest research scientist, software engineers, application development engineers, and senior product technology process engineers. The …

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Nvidia

Senior System Software Engineer - Embedded Controller

Santa Clara, California, United States

… work. Join our team and discover how you can develop a lasting impact on the world. We are looking for a senior engineer to improve GPU system software and the way that software is built. You will work on firmware, a …

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Senior System Software Engineer - GPU SW

Santa Clara, California, United States

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior System SW Engineer with expertise in systems software, GPU drivers, embedded software, and platform …

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Booz Allen Hamilton

Software System Safety Engineer

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Pay posted by employer$69,400–$158,000

Software System Safety Engineer The Opportunity: As a full stack developer, you can resolve a problem with a …

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Nvidia

Senior Software Engineer, Network System Validation

Israel, Yokneam

… of GPUs into a single AI supercomputer. NVIDIA is looking for a Technical Lead to join our Network System Validation group and lead the validation of advanced networking solutions across complex AI cluster …

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Senior System Software Engineer, Display Security

Santa Clara, California, United States

… make a lasting impact on the world. NVIDIA is searching for a creative, highly motivated and independent engineer with expertise in system software with security background to join the SOC System Software organization. …

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RTX

Senior Software Safety / Senior System Safety Engineer

Tucson, Arizona, United States

… creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense. Our System Safety team is dedicated to evaluating and mitigating the safety risks that our products may pose to the …

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Senior System Software Engineer, Vulkan Performance

Santa Clara, California, United States +1 location

As a Vulkan Performance driver engineer, you will have a hand in everything from the game engine down to bare metal! You will be part of a team …

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Nvidia

Senior System Software Engineer - GPU Power Management

Pune, Maharashtra, India +1 location

We are now looking for a Senior System Software Engineer - GPU Power Management! NVIDIA is searching for a dedicated system software engineer to join the GPU Power …

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Senior System Software Engineer, Enterprise MODS

Santa Clara, California, United States +1 location

… need to evolve across diverse hardware technologies. We're in search of a visionary technical leader to engineer and propel innovation in diagnostics for NVIDIA's partner ecosystem. This role is essential in crafting how …

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Senior System Software Engineer, Enterprise MODS

Santa Clara, California, United States +1 location

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Nvidia

Senior System Software Engineer, Agentic Retrieval

Santa Clara, California, United States +4 more

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NVIDIA's technology is at the heart of the AI revolution, touching people across the planet by powering everything from self-driving cars, robotics, co-pilots and more. Join us at the forefront of technological advancement in intelligent assistants and information retrieval. NVIDIA is looking for a System Software Engineer - Agentic Retrieval to develop pipelines for indexing and querying multi-modal content. We are looking for someone with a passion for working with the world's most challenging problems in Generative AI, LLM, VLLM, and Agentic Retrieval spaces using our innovative hardware and software platforms. You will develop tools for building powerful, flexible, multi-modal retrievers and agents driven by Large Language Models(LLM) thereby improving the experience of millions of customers. If you're creative & passionate about solving real world conversational AI problems, come join us.

This role is pivotal in accelerating containerized pipelines for high quality multi-modal datasets and providing best-in-class retrieval efficacy. The day-to-day focus is on developing efficient, scalable systems for deduplicating, filtering, and classifying training corpora for tailored models that enhance off-the-shelf capabilities. Fundamental to these efforts are iterative testing and improvement in system cost, speed, & accuracy through micro-optimization, prompt engineering, fine tuning, and applying new research. The ideal candidate believes in craftsmanship whereby they release early and often to obtain feedback while keeping the long-term vision alive! They are comfortable objectively evaluating the latest AI models and frameworks with an eye towards acceleration and capability enhancement.

What You'll Be Doing:

Develop and optimize Rust-based data processing frameworks, ensuring efficient handling of large datasets on GPU-accelerated environments, vital for LLM training.
Lead development and iterative optimization of components for Agentic Retrieval pipelines, ensuring they demonstrate GPU acceleration & the best performing models for improved TCO.
Collaborate with teams of LLM & ML researchers in the development of full-stack, GPU-accelerated data preparation pipelines for multimodal models Implement benchmarking, profiling, and optimization of innovative algorithms in Python in various system architectures, specifically targeting LLM applications.
Work closely with diverse teams to understand requirements, build & evaluate POCs, and develop roadmaps for production level tools and library features within the growing LLM ecosystem.
Build amazing products to improve employee productivity using Gen-AI & Co-pilot experiences!
Develop integrated systems enabling unified experience across applications and driving insights for end-to-end user experience.
Help build and maintain our Continuous Delivery pipeline with the goal of moving changes to production faster and safer, while ensuring key operational standards.
Provide peer reviews to other specialists including feedback on performance, scalability, and correctness and actively contribute to the adoption of frameworks, standards, and new technologies

What We Need To See:

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree program in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
6+ years of experience in a similar or related role
Experience delivering software in a cloud context and is familiar with the patterns and process of managing cloud infrastructure
Knowledge of MLOps technologies such as Docker-Compose, Containers, Kubernetes, data center deployments etc
Excellent in-depth hands-on understanding of NLP, LLM, VLM, Generative AI, and Agentic Retrieval workflows
Self-starter with a passion for growth, enthusiasm for continuous learning and sharing findings across the team
Outstanding communication skills for distilling sophisticated topics down to understandable, impactful conclusions..
Ability to work successfully with multi-functional teams, principals, and architects. Coordinates optimally across organizational boundaries and geographies.

If you are passionate about technology, have a proven track record in system software engineering, and are eager to make a significant impact in the industry, we would love to hear from you. Join us at NVIDIA and help us craft the future of visual computing!

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 6, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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