Senior Software Engineer - AI System - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$184,000 - $356,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 26 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
NVIDIA is seeking an experienced software engineer to build NVIDIA AI for Media SDKs, developing and optimizing AI software across cloud and embedded platforms.
What you'll do
- Build low-latency software for AI media workloads across cloud and embedded platforms. - Optimize and deploy AI models and software stacks on embedded processors and NVIDIA GPU platforms. - Profile AI workloads to improve performance, power, and memory usage. - Develop and maintain cross-platform CI/CD, packaging, and test systems. - Collaborate across engineering teams to bring new hardware capabilities and platform software to AI media applications. - Drive projects from design through validated release with clear milestones, documentation, and handoffs.
What you'll need
- BS or MS degree, or equivalent experience, with 8+ years of relevant systems software development experience. - Strong C++ and CUDA programming, system design, debugging, and software engineering skills. - Strong Linux development expertise, including toolchains, dependency management, scripting, and troubleshooting. - Experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins or GitLab CI, including automated build, test, and packaging workflows. - Experience with Docker-based development and build environments. - Background in computer vision/graphics and linear algebra. - Experience shipping production SDKs and developer libraries. - Proficiency in AI-driven development best practices and agentic engineering workflows.
Skills: CUDA, C++, Linux, TensorRT, SDK
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 56-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · GPU Software Stack
|
Open roles in category
245
|
Median days open
56 d
|
Median salary
$221k
|
See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (245 roles · 20 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 126 | 245 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 993 | 6292 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 56 d | 56 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $221k |
Skills observed across this category: CUDA, C++, Linux, TensorRT, SDK
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 123 open roles · median 57 d
- AMD · 51 open roles · median 55 d
- Intel Corporation · 26 open roles · median 16 d
- Qualcomm · 18 open roles · median 131 d
- Arm Holdings · 5 open roles · median 124 d
- Graphcore · 4 open roles · median 6 d
How we counted: 245 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (GPU Software Stack) roles from 20 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 27 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.