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Senior Graphics Driver Engineer

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$152k - $241.5kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior graphics driver engineering role focused on developing, optimizing, and analyzing graphics software for professional applications on NVIDIA GPUs. Involves performance analysis, bottleneck isolation, regression debugging, and collaboration with driver, architecture, and hardware teams to deliver measurable improvements and benchmarks for workstation workloads.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, debug, and validate graphics software and optimizations that improve professional application performance on NVIDIA GPUs.
  • Analyze professional workstation applications and identify opportunities to improve performance and user experience.
  • Design experiments and develop analysis techniques to isolate complex application-performance bottlenecks.
  • Profile application and graphics API workloads using traces, performance counters, and other analysis techniques.
  • Create tools, scripts, and automated workflows, including AI-assisted techniques, for performance analysis, regression detection, and validation.
  • Collaborate with application developers and NVIDIA driver, architecture, and hardware teams to evaluate and deliver performance improvements.
  • Develop representative workstation benchmarks that capture meaningful real-world application behavior.

Qualifications

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field—or equivalent experience.
  • Strong C/C++ programming skills.
  • 5+ years experience with software performance analysis, profiling, optimization, or debugging.
  • Understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and how applications interact with graphics APIs and GPU hardware.
  • Familiarity with source-control systems such as Perforce or Git.
  • Experience with software development methodologies such as design reviews and code reviews.
  • Ability to develop and debug software in a Windows OS environment.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools and enthusiasm for learning new technologies.

Skills

Required:C/C++ programmingPerformance analysis and profilingGraphics APIs understandingWindows OS debugging

Benefits

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

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