Manager, CUDA Systems Software - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$224,000 - $431,250 USD yearly
Originally posted 15 September 2026 by the employer.
Join the CUDA Driver team at NVIDIA.
About the role
This role involves leading a team responsible for the design and implementation of the CUDA programming model and its associated functionality within the CUDA Driver and CUDA Runtime APIs. The team focuses on the memory model aspects of the CUDA Driver, including memory allocation, movement, and access across NVIDIA hardware offerings in single-node and multi-node environments.
What you'll do
- Lead a team of system software engineers to design and build CUDA for current and future hardware architectures.
- Engage with teams across NVIDIA to define and drive CUDA's roadmap.
- Contribute to CUDA feature design and drive adoption of new CUDA functionality.
- Establish team objectives, prioritize incoming work, mentor team members, and manage team performance.
- Monitor team execution and identify opportunities for process improvement.
What you'll need
- 8+ years of experience in the software industry with 3+ years of management experience.
- Bachelors, Masters, or Ph.D. or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong system software fundamentals, hands-on C programming, and debugging skills.
- Ability to manage a team’s execution towards project deliverables in environments with competing priorities.
Skills: CUDA Driver, CUDA programming model, system software, GPU programming APIs, memory model
This role has been open 28 days — well below the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
956
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$235k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (956 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 277 | 956 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 986 | 6119 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 44 d | 51 d (−7 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: CUDA Driver, CUDA programming model, system software, GPU programming APIs, memory model
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 287 open roles · median 44 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 56 d
- AMD · 53 open roles · median 22 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 89 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 79 d
- Intel Corporation · 36 open roles · median 13 d
How we counted: 956 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.