Senior Software Engineer - GPU and SOC
Nvidia · Santa Clara, CA
About this role
Nvidia is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in Santa Clara, CA. The posting calls out experience with Linux, Python, C, LLMs.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA
- Posted
- May 18, 2026
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Job description
from Nvidia careersNVIDIA is searching for highly motivated, creative engineers to join the Platform Software team. You will work with a team of hardworking software engineers working on all aspects of SOC and system, and technology verticals. As someone who is hardworking and passionate about their craft, you will design key aspects of our SOC drivers, Firmware, BIOS, BSP, sophisticated CI/CD system, as well as collaborating with key partners and OEM customers. You should demonstrate the ability to excel in an environment with fast pace and agility.
What you'll be doing:
Developing, triaging and debugging Pre-OS Firmware, BIOS, SoC & Platform drivers
Building sophisticated automation triage tools and, FW and OS-drivers issue packetizations
Supporting OS driver development, bring up and triaging of Platform and Multimedia drivers
Supporting the OEM ecosystem and providing innovative solutions
Drive Startup and Shutdown Time KPIs goal & optimizations
Drive end-to-end performance excellence: debug and root-cause GPU bottlenecks and issues for gaming, creator, and AI workload, validate BSP performance and stability KPIs; develop firmware/SW optimizations for Arm SoCs and unified memory; build benchmarks, automation, and telemetry tools
Supporting various ecosystems related verticals
Responsible for full product lifecycle from pre-silicon to bringup to production, in products across different business verticals: FW and OS-driver verification on Pre-Silicon (emulation, simulation) platforms, Bring-up of FW & OS-drivers on silicon, Post-Silicon SW milestones execution and launching SW product.
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