Senior Systems Software Engineer, Base OS - Kernel
Nvidia · Remote (United States)
About this role
Nvidia is hiring a senior-level Systems Engineer in the operations function as a remote position. The posting calls out experience with C, Deep Learning, CI/CD, Linux.
- Role
- Systems Engineer
- Function
- operations
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Remote (United States)
- Work mode
- Remote
- Posted
- May 14, 2026
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Job description
from Nvidia careersNVIDIA's invention of the GPU in 1999 fueled the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, we are increasingly known as "the AI computing company". We're looking to grow our company and build our teams with the most resourceful people in the world. Join us at the forefront of technological advancement.
What you'll be doing:
Architect and Enable: Drive the enablement of the NVIDIA Vera Superchip for enterprise customers, ensuring the Base OS, which is derived from Ubuntu and ships on DGX systems, is optimized for the next generation of AI and HPC platforms.
Tier-1 Partner Collaboration: Act as a primary technical point of contact for Tier-1 customers, working directly with their engineering teams to enable and optimize their internal Linux distributions on NVIDIA hardware.
Hyperscale Problem Solving: Solve complex kernel challenges unique to massive-scale deployments, including high core counts, multi-terabyte memory footprints, and multi-rack system interconnects with NVIDIA specific architectures..
Hardware Bring-up: Partner with Hardware and Firmware teams to lead the bring-up of new platforms, from Pre-Silicon simulation to OS boot and production stability.
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