senior Software Engineer ic · Posted May 15, 2026

About this role

Nvidia is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in Santa Clara, CA. The posting calls out experience with CUDA, Data Structures, Python, Rust.

Role
Software Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Posted
May 15, 2026

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Job description

from Nvidia careers

NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern deep learning — 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 establish teams with the most inquisitive people in the world. Join us at the forefront of technological advancement.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Work on first solutions in the industry that bring exceptional performance and security improvements to the infrastructure used by leading applications.

  • Develop new features and enable various technologies around data storage for GPU IO.

  • Develop advanced C++/CUDA libraries and algorithms for speed-of-light performance

  • Remove performance bottlenecks by coming up with optimization(s) in the IO stack, frameworks, and applications.

  • Work collaboratively with other specialists including the research teams and be willing to take on complex engineering tasks that progress towards the goals of the team and the company.

What we need to see:

  • Good knowledge of Linux kernel internals, Filesystem, Object storage systems, Databases, Vector Databases

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