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Senior Software Engineer - Python & C++

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Israel, Yokneam, Israel, Raananafull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer to join Nvidia's Video/Multimedia Architecture & Algorithms (A&A) team, building and optimizing core components for NVENC/NVDEC in C++ and Python. Includes code review, mentoring, research-to-shipping routing, and performance tuning of the video stack. Hybrid role with 4 days/week in office.

Responsibilities

  • Work with Architects and Algorithms Engineers to design and optimize solutions in modern C++ and Python
  • Set high software quality standards through code reviews, mentoring, and improving the group’s practices
  • Implement detailed tweaks to the SDK and video stack to enable researchers to test ideas without forking the world; shepherd research code to shipping NVENC/NVDEC releases
  • Profile and optimize critical paths in the codec stack; pursue CUDA-based optimizations when CPU optimizations are insufficient
  • Build and improve small libraries, frameworks, and tools used by the team to ensure developer joy

Qualifications

  • B.Sc. in Computer Science or Electrical/Computer Engineering
  • 8+ years of relevant proven experience (or 5+ years with an M.Sc.)
  • Proficiency in modern C++ (C++14/17/20) including templates, RAII, concurrency, move semantics, STL
  • Proficiency in Python (idiomatic, performant, well-tested)
  • Strong software design instincts with emphasis on APIs, modularity, testability, maintainability, and performance
  • Experience on Linux development: CMake, Git, debuggers, profilers, sanitizers
  • Experience optimizing algorithmic code using multi-threading/multi-processing, SIMD, C/C++

Skills

Required:C++PythonLinux developmentCode review & mentoring

Benefits

  • Not specified in description
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