NVIDIA · 11 hours ago
Senior Software Performance Engineer - AV Platform
US, CA, Santa Clara
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$184K/yr - $356K/yr
10+ years expNVIDIA is a leading company in AI computing, known for its GPU technology that powers intelligent machines. They are seeking a Senior Software Performance Engineer to optimize autonomous driving solutions, collaborating with various teams to enhance product performance and efficiency.
AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Consumer ElectronicsFoundational AIGPUHardwareSoftwareVirtual Reality
Responsibilities
Develop, maintain and optimize latency and throughput of NVIDIA’s L2/L3/L4 autonomous driving solutions
Devise acceleration strategies and patterns to improve software architecture and its efficiency on our computers with multiple heterogeneous hardware engines while meeting or exceeding product goals
Develop highly efficient product code in C++, making use of algorithmic parallelism offered by GPGPU programming (CUDA)/ARM NEON while following quality and safety standards such as defined by MISRA
Collaborate with HW, product, OS, and safety teams to design next-gen products
Qualification
Required
MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Architecture, Electrical Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)
10+ years of relevant professional experience working on autonomous vehicles software
Excellent C and C++ programming skills
Solid understanding of programming and debugging techniques, especially for parallel architectures
Good understanding of system software/operating systems and computer architecture
Experience with performance analysis, optimizations and benchmarking
Outstanding communication and collaboration skills as this role might require significant interfacing with other teams within NVIDIA
Preferred
Understanding of embedded architectures and real-time operating systems & scheduling
Strong mathematical fundamentals, including linear algebra and numerical methods
Experience implementing algorithms in robotics, computer vision, and/or machine learning
Software development experience with CUDA/GPGPU or any data parallel architectures
Deep learning architecture/performance work on any HW accelerator, especially if on GPUs
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NVIDIA
NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.
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