Sr. Staff/Principal Engineer - GPU Driver & Systems Software

About the Role Bring your GPU driver expertise and work directly with our Architecture and Micro-architecture teams. You will help extract maximum performance from the silicon and play a pivotal role in driving our next-generation GPU designs forward. Work Location: San Diego, CA, or San Jose, CA

This is a full-stack GPU software role. You will have the opportunity to work across industry-standard graphics and compute APIs, kernel-mode drivers, GPU firmware, performance optimization, and hardware/software co-design.

What You'll Do - The Full Stack

• API Layer: Architect, develop, and optimize features for industry-standard APIs including Vulkan, DirectX, OpenGL ES, and OpenCL.
• Kernel & Firmware: Work deep in kernel-mode drivers and GPU firmware to improve hardware control, stability, scheduling, memory management, and execution efficiency.
• Performance: Identify, analyze, and eliminate bottlenecks across the stack - including driver overhead, memory bandwidth, GPU scheduling, compute throughput, and power/performance tradeoffs.
• Architecture Collaboration: Partner closely with Architecture, Micro-architecture, Compiler, and GPU Model teams to influence next-generation GPU design and ensure the software stack fully leverages the hardware.
• Technical Leadership: Lead complex debug efforts, guide design decisions, mentor engineers, and help raise the technical bar across the GPU driver team.