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Senior Software Engineer - GeForce NOW Video Streaming

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

About the role

Senior Software Engineer to develop a high-performance, low-latency streaming stack for GeForce NOW, focusing on ultra-low latency, video quality, and network resilience across cloud gaming applications.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and improve media streaming stack to deliver ultra-low streaming latency, video quality, and network resilience
  • Innovate, design, and develop features to improve image quality, performance, reliability, security, and maintainability
  • Analyze GPU/CPU performance for the video pipeline, isolate bottlenecks and implement solutions in collaboration with GPU hardware and software teams to deliver top performance
  • Develop tools to measure video quality experienced by users, refine to enable evaluation of quality improvements with high confidence
  • Leverage features and toolsets in the latest video compression technologies to deliver high-quality streaming solutions tailored for different interactive graphics applications
  • Build adaptive streaming solutions that maintain quality and continuity under variable and unreliable network conditions

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
  • Proficient in C, C++, multi-threaded programming, system software design
  • Experience with GPU-accelerated video and graphics pipelines, usage of hardware-based video encoders, color spaces, operations such as video scaling, tone mapping, etc.
  • Familiarity with API frameworks such as DirectX, Vulkan, CUDA, OpenGL, V4L2, and NvMedia
  • Solid understanding of toolsets in different video codecs like H.264, HEVC, and AV1, including tuning codec configurations to meet application requirements and trade-offs.
  • Proficiency in telemetry, statistical data analysis, and performance monitoring to measure and optimize video quality, latency, and system performance in cloud infrastructures.
  • Strong understanding of different layers of the software stack, including OS internals, user-mode and kernel-mode drivers, strong system software performance analysis, testing, and debugging skills
  • 6+ years of experience in the above areas

Skills

Required:C, C++, multi-threaded programmingGPU-accelerated video pipelinesVideo codecs (H.264, HEVC, AV1)DirectX, Vulkan, CUDA, OpenGL, V4L2, NvMedia

Benefits

  • equity
  • competitive salaries and a generous benefits package
  • benefits (as per company benefits page)
Last updated Jul 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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