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Senior Systems Software Engineer – GPU Software
Santa Clara, California, United States
$184k-$357k/yr OnsiteFull Time
NVIDIA
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Designs GPU-accelerated computing and artificial intelligence hardware.
10+ YOEBS/MS in Computer Engineering/Computer Science (or equivalent), 10+ years software development, strong C and low-level driver/kernel experience, system-level debugging, hardware-software collaboration and leadership.
C, Linux, Android, Chrome, Windows, XenServer, KVM, Hyper-V, RTOS
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Senior Systems Software Engineer – GPU Software
Santa Clara, California, United States
$184k-$357k/yr OnsiteFull Time
NVIDIA
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Designs graphics processing units and artificial intelligence hardware.
10+ YOEBS/MS in Computer Engineering/Science (or equivalent), 10+ years software development, strong C and low-level driver/kernel experience, system-level debugging, leadership, and familiarity with Linux/Android/Chrome/Windows kernels and computer architecture.
C, Linux, Android, Chrome, Windows, XenServer, KVM, Hyper-V, RTOS
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Systems Software Engineer (C++)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Thunder Compute
Thunder Compute: Provides cost-effective, developer-focused cloud GPU instances.
Expert C++ performance optimization, low-level networking, and production systems ownership.
C++, Low-level networking, GPU optimization, Compilers, Performance profiling
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Systems Software Engineer
Boston or Cambridge or San Francisco
$120k-$170k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Lumafield
Lumafield: Accessible industrial CT scanners and cloud-based analysis software
3+ YOE3+ years in low-level Python/C, embedded Linux, hardware integration; startup experience; Bachelor's in engineering; eligible to work in the US without sponsorship.
Python, C, Linux, udev, systemd, kernel schedulers, CUDA, Jetson, OpenCV
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Software Engineer - Core Systems
San Carlos, California, United States
$200k-$280k/yr OnsiteFull Time
1X
1X: Manufacturing safe, general-purpose humanoid robots for home and work.
5+ YOE5+ years shipping production C++ in performance-critical systems; systems-level profiling, benchmarking, and debugging; experience writing deterministic, low-latency libraries and IPC for real-time systems.
C++, Linux, flamegraphs, perf counters, cross-compilation toolchains, embedded Linux
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Software Engineer, Low Latency Computing (Starlink)
Redmond or Palo Alto
$125k-$175k/yr OnsiteFull Time
SpaceX
SpaceX: Designs and launches advanced rockets and satellite internet constellations.
2+ YOEBachelor's in CS/engineering/math/science or 2+ years software development experience; development experience in assembly, C, or C++; experience with real-time, distributed systems, optimization; strong communication and problem-solving skills.
Assembly, C, C++
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Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Systems, Platforms and Devices
San Jose, California, United States
$174k-$252k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Google
GoogleNASDAQ: GOOGL: Provides online search, advertising, cloud computing, and consumer electronics.
5+ YOEBachelor’s degree or equivalent, 5 years of low-level systems programming, 3 years developing software products, embedded operating systems experience, and systems performance analysis skills.
C++, C
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Software Engineer III
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$117k-$234k/yr HybridFull Time
Walmart
WalmartNYSE: WMT: Multinational retail operating discount stores and supermarkets.
2+ YOEBachelor's degree in CS or related plus 2 years software engineering, or 4 years' experience; experience with TDD, designing low-level systems, debugging, and building agentic frameworks and tool integrations.
LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen
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Software Engineer, Agent Harnessing
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$170k-$275k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Scout AI
Scout AI: Building the robotic foundation model for multi-domain defense.
5+ YOE5+ years full‑stack engineering; experience building agentic products or orchestration systems; integrating software with hardware or low‑level systems; exposure to simulation/game engines or robotics middleware; strong SWE fundamentals.
Unreal, Unity, Isaac Sim, ROS, ROS2
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Senior Software Engineer, Game Engine & World Systems (Autonomy)
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition: Developing software and simulation infrastructure for autonomous vehicles.
7+ YOE7+ years software engineering experience with spatial/world modeling; expert C++ (C++20), Python and shell scripting; strong computational geometry and low-latency systems skills; US citizenship and clearance eligibility required.
C++, C++20, Python, Shell, Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Linux, Docker, Nix, Bazel
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Software Engineer, Runtime
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Ollama
Ollama: Software platform for running open-source large language models.
Experience with systems programming (Go,C,C++), GPU or low-level performance work, profiling and optimizing real workloads, and shipping software across macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Go, C, C++, CUDA, Metal, SYCL, MLX
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Software Engineer (C++/Java)
Boston or Salt Lake City or San Francisco or New York City
RemoteFull Time
Databento
Databento: Provides a pay-as-you-go financial market data platform.
5+ YOE5+ years software engineering experience; strong proficiency in C/C++ and Java; experience with low-level systems, multithreading, networking, lldb/gdb; trading or finance experience preferred.
C/C++, Java, C#, lldb, gdb
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Software Engineer (Ray Core)
San Francisco or Palo Alto
HybridFull Time
Anyscale
Anyscale: Cloud platform for scaling distributed machine learning applications.
5+ YOE5+ years in distributed systems or software engineering; strong C/C++ and low-level OS experience; experience building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems; knowledge of distributed model training and inference; GPU programming preferred.
C/C++, GPU programming, Ray
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Staff Software Development Engineer - Rust, Compilers, and GPU Systems
San Jose, California, United States
$179k-$306k/yr HybridFull Time
AMD
AMDNASDAQ: AMD: Designs and manufactures computer processors and graphics technology.
Deep production Rust experience plus compiler or systems expertise; experience with GPU software, LLVM/MLIR, low-level programming, validation, and technical leadership. Bachelor's, master's, PhD, or equivalent experience preferred.
Rust, rustc, MIR, MLIR, LLVM, LLVM IR, AMDGPU, C, C++, GCC, ELF, DWARF, LLVM MC, GCN, RDNA, CDNA, ROCm, HIP, HSA, Verus, Lean, Coq, Isabelle, Dafny, TLA+
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System Software Engineer - HP IQ
San Francisco, California, United States
$162k-$288k/yr OnsiteFull Time
HP
HPNYSE: HPQ: Manufactures personal computers, printers, and 3D printing hardware.
8+ YOE8+ years system software and embedded platform experience; strong C or C++; driver and low-level framework development; Python; hardware-software debugging; performance and power optimization.
C, C++, Python, Android, Linux, Windows, Perfmon, Valgrind, GPU, DSP, logic analyzers, ARM System-on-Chip (SOC)
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Senior Software Engineer, Networking & Real-Time Systems
Mountain View, California, United States
$194k-$291k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Nuro
Nuro: Builds autonomous driving software and electric delivery robots.
5+ YOE5+ years industry experience (or PhD + 3+ years); deep Linux networking, socket programming, real-time systems; strong C++ (C++20) and Go skills; experience with networking protocols and low-latency video streaming.
C++20, Go, WebRTC, WebSocket, QUIC, SRT, gRPC, Wireshark, ns-3, VP8, VP9, H.264, H.265
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Software Engineer, Monetization ML Infrastructure
San Francisco, California, United States
$293k-$441k/yr HybridFull Time
OpenAI
OpenAI: Develops artificial intelligence models and generative AI software services.
7+ YOE7+ years of professional software engineering, experience with large-scale distributed systems or ML infrastructure, built ML workflows and data pipelines, low-latency, reliable systems, observability, and cross-functional collaboration.
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Senior Principal Software Engineer
Santa Clara or Seattle
$135k-$306k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Oracle
OracleNYSE: ORCL: Provides cloud infrastructure and enterprise software for global businesses.
10+ YOE10+ years engineering experience, strong C/C++ with openness to Rust, expertise in high-concurrency and low-level performance-critical distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
C, C++, Rust, Write-Ahead Logging (WAL), B-tree, LSM tree, Raft, Paxos, Multi-Paxos, MVCC
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System Software Engineer - HP IQ
San Francisco, California, United States
$162k-$288k/yr OnsiteFull Time
HP
HPNYSE: HPQ: Produces personal computers, printers, and related digital imaging products.
8+ YOE8+ years system software/embedded platform experience; strong C or C++ skills; Python experience; systems design, low-level driver and firmware development, debugging at HW/SW interface; ARM SoC familiarity.
C, C++, Python, Perfmon, Valgrind, Android, Linux, Windows, ARM, GPU, DSP, logic analyzer
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Senior Software Engineer
Redmond or Mountain View
$120k-$235k/yr HybridFull Time
Microsoft
MicrosoftNASDAQ: MSFT: Develops software, services, devices, and cloud computing solutions.
4+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent with 4+ years engineering experience; strong backend experience building low-latency services, knowledge of OpenRTB/programmatic advertising, distributed systems, experimentation, and observability.
Go, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Kubernetes, AKS, ACR, Azure Key Vault, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Event Hubs, Azure AD, Azure DevOps, Azure Application Insights, Prebid Server, Event Hubs, Kafka, Kusto/ADX
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