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Join the NVIDIA Developer Tools team and empower engineers worldwide developing groundbreaking products in Automotive, VR, Gaming, Deep Learning, and High Performance Computing. See your efforts in action as developers and 3rd party tool developers use your products to debug, profile and analyze the correctness of their systems/applications using the products and low-level API that you contributed to as a member of the Developer Tools team. Innovate as you develop the debug and performance analysis capability of future generations of NVIDIA GPUs. Be a part of the team that brings new GPU technologies to market with sophisticated simulation/emulation systems and be among the first to breathe life into new silicon.

The position will be part of a dynamic, worldwide team that develops and maintains several desktop and mobile Developer Tools products that are hosted and targeting OSes including Windows, Linux, Android and other embedded system real time OSes (RTOS).

• Apply knowledge of compute programming models and compute architecture to build tools that provide actionable feedback to compute developers.
• Work in existing driver code, application code, write new shared libraries and performance tests, and learn new compute and graphics drivers, GPU architectures and operating systems.
• Develop the Compute Sanitizer (suite of memory checker tools) for GPUs on Linux, Windows, and embedded operating systems.
• Collaborate with tools, compiler, architecture and driver teams to design, implement and verify new features in the Compute Sanitizer stack.
• Work closely with internal and external partners within NVIDIA.
• Estimate and prioritize tasks to create realistic delivery schedules.
• Write fast, effective, maintainable, reliable, well‑documented code.
• Provide peer reviews, including feedback on performance, scalability and correctness.
• Document requirements and designs, and review documents with teams throughout NVIDIA.
• Mentor junior engineers.

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience.
• Strong programming ability in C, C++, Assembly Language and scripting languages.
• Excellent system programming expertise: memory management, processes/threads management, debugging and profiling.
• Excellent knowledge of computer architecture of x86 or ARM CPUs.
• Strong problem‑solving and debugging skills.
• Familiar with low‑level programming using assembly languages.
• Source‑control understanding (git, Perforce, etc.).
• Ability to self‑manage, communicate and adapt in a fast‑paced, high‑demand environment with changing priorities and direction.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.

• CUDA/OpenCL knowledge.
• Experience with code patching.
• ELF/DWARF knowledge.

Base salary range: $184,000 – $287,500 USD for Level4, $224,000 – $356,500 USD for Level5. Eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications will be accepted until July21, 2026.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.