Senior Systems Software Engineer - United States
$152,000 - $241,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 17 September 2026 by the employer.
Join the team delivering the native Android streaming stack for GeForce NOW.
About the role
This Senior Systems Software Engineer role involves deep systems engineering and full-stack ownership to develop highly optimized streaming stack for GeForce NOW.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain features across the full Android application stack.
- Define and develop performance benchmarking for targeted impact analysis.
- 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.
- 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.
What you'll need
- 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 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++.
- Proficient in visualization tools like Kibana.
- Familiarity with project management tools like Jira, Confluence, Perforce and Git.
Skills: Android streaming stack, low latency, C/C++, Java, graphics rendering
This role has been open 30 days — well below the 59-day median for Systems Software Engineering roles.
Systems Software Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
686
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Median days open
59 d
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Median salary
$213k
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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 (686 roles · 71 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 130 | 686 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 973 | 6119 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 46 d | 59 d (−13 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $213k |
Skills observed across this category: Android streaming stack, low latency, C/C++, Java, graphics rendering
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 169 open roles · median 78 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 134 open roles · median 47 d
- AMD · 63 open roles · median 51 d
- Mobileye · 27 open roles · median 72 d
- Broadcom · 22 open roles · median 53 d
- Arm Holdings · 20 open roles · median 114 d
How we counted: 686 open Systems Software Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 71 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 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.