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Senior Systems Software Engineer

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Hybrid (Pune), Hybrid (Hyderabad), Hybrid (Bengaluru)full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Systems Software Engineer to develop and optimize the Android streaming stack for GeForce NOW, focusing on low latency, performance, and cross-hardware Android environments.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain features across the full Android application stack — Input, Networking, Video Rendering, UI, App Packaging and Distribution.
  • Define and develop performance benchmarking for targeted impact analysis - profile and continuously tune the software across networking, CPU, GPU, and input using the knowledge of Android tooling ecosystem and AOSP internals.
  • Innovate, design, and develop features that improve video latency, quality, performance, reliability, security, and maintainability across diverse hardware and Android-based OS environments.
  • Own features from scoping through delivery — breaking down work, drafting technical requirements and design documents, tracking milestones, handling cross-team dependencies and risks, and proactively surfacing blockers before they slip a schedule.
  • Contribute actively to code and design reviews, team processes, and methodologies.
  • Partner across a variety of internal engineering and QA teams and external partners that build Android products.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related area, or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of experience in systems software development with a thorough command of the Android application core concepts such as Activity, Fragment, Service and JNI.
  • Experience with graphics rendering and video playback pipelines on Android using MediaCodec, EGL and Vulkan.
  • Hands-on proficiency with Android profiling and debugging tools across networking, input, CPU and GPU such as Dumpsys, Traceview and GPU inspector.
  • Good understanding of Android build system components like Gradle, Jenkins and AAB
  • Understanding of Android’s test infrastructure such as instrumentation, UI automation and unit testing.
  • Highly proficient in Java and C/C++, and comfortable working in a large, long-lived codebase.
  • Proficient in visualization tools like Kibana to run statistical data analysis to measure feature performance and effectiveness.
  • Familiarity with project management tools like Jira, Confluence, Perforce and Git.
  • Ability to independently drive projects to completion, with excellent written and verbal communication and a proactive approach to identifying problems and pushing them to resolution.

Skills

Required:Android application concepts (Activity, Fragment, Service, JNI)Graphics rendering and video playback pipelines (MediaCodec, EGL, Vulkan)Android profiling and debugging tools (Dumpsys, Traceview, GPU inspector)Android build systems (Gradle, Jenkins, AAB)Instrumentation, UI automation, unit testingJava and C/C++Project management tools (Jira, Confluence, Perforce, Git)
Nice to have:Visualization tools (Kibana)
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