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Senior System Software Engineer

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA, Champaign, IL, Redmond, WA$184k - $287.5kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Systems Software Engineer focusing on Apache Spark acceleration. Develop CUDA/C++ libraries to accelerate Spark operations on GPUs, enable native execution of Spark operations, and collaborate across distributed systems and open source communities to accelerate data processing workloads at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Enable C++ native execution of Spark operations on CUDA
  • Develop CUDA/C++ libraries to accelerate DataFrames and I/O operations on common file formats such as Parquet, ORC and JSON
  • Collaborate with distributed systems teams to craft solutions to distributed processing problems at large scale
  • Work with open source communities to enhance libraries like RAPIDS, CCCL and UCX through technical discussion and code contributions
  • Provide recommendations and feedback to teams regarding decisions surrounding topics such as infrastructure, continuous integration and testing strategy
  • Build, test and optimize across different platforms

Qualifications

  • 9+ years of experience in software development
  • 5+ years hands on experience with data platform development
  • BS/MS/PhD in computer science or a related field (or equivalent experience)
  • Proficiency in C++, Java, Scala
  • Experience supporting enterprise customers
  • Familiarity with the open source data platform ecosystem is a plus (Apache Spark, Velox, Presto, Apache Arrow, Apache DataFusion, etc.)
  • Experience using AI tools in software development

Skills

Required:C++JavaScala
Nice to have:Distributed systemsOpen source collaboration

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (details at NVIDIA benefits page)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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