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Principal Systems Software Engineer

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA, Champaign, IL$272k - $431.3kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Sr. Principal Systems Software Engineer to accelerate Apache Spark workloads on GPUs, contributing to OSS RAPIDS Spark, integrating with Spark ecosystems and building CUDA/C++ libraries for GPU-accelerated data processing at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Develop Java, Scala and CUDA/C++ libraries to accelerate DataFrames and I/O operations on common file formats such as Parquet, ORC and JSON
  • Enable interoperability with table formats such as Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake, and metastores such as Unity Catalog
  • Work with open source communities to enhance libraries like NVIDIA cuDF, CCCL and UCX through technical discussion and code contributions
  • Collaborate with distributed systems teams to craft solutions to distributed processing problems challenges at large scale
  • Provide recommendations and feedback to teams regarding decisions surrounding topics such as infrastructure, continuous integration and testing strategy
  • Build, test and optimize CUDA/C++ libraries across different platforms

Qualifications

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or closely related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 15+ years of work experience in software development
  • Outstanding technical skills in designing and implementing high-quality distributed systems
  • Excellent programming skills in C++, Java, and/or Scala
  • Ability to work with teams across organizational boundaries and geographies
  • Familiarity with the open source data platform ecosystem (Apache Spark, Velox, Presto, Apache Arrow, Apache DataFusion, etc.). Meaningful contributions to the OSS community a plus
  • Highly motivated with strong interpersonal skills
  • Database query optimization is a strong plus

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designC++Java
Nice to have:Scala

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (see NVIDIA benefits)
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