Senior Software Engineer, NCCL

Nvidia · Santa Clara, CA

senior Software Engineer ic · Posted May 14, 2026

About this role

Nvidia is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in Santa Clara, CA. The posting calls out experience with Linux, C, CUDA, TensorFlow.

Role
Software Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Posted
May 14, 2026

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Job description

from Nvidia careers

NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars. NVIDIA is looking for phenomenal people like you to help us accelerate the next wave of artificial intelligence.

We are looking for a highly motivated senior software engineer for an exciting role in our communication libraries and network software team. The position will be part of a fast-paced crew that develops and maintains software for complex heterogeneous computing systems that power disruptive products in High Performance Computing and Deep Learning.

What you will be doing:

  • Design, implement and maintain highly-optimized communication runtimes for Deep Learning frameworks (e.g. NCCL for TensorFlow/Pytorch) and HPC programming interfaces (e.g. UCX for MPI/OpenSHMEM) on GPU clusters.

  • Participating in and contributing to parallel programming interface specifications like MPI/OpenSHMEM.

  • Design, implement and maintain system software that enables interactions among GPUs and interactions between GPUs and other system components.

  • Creating proof-of-concepts to evaluate and motivate extensions in programming models, new designs in runtimes and new features in hardware.

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