Senior Systems Software Engineer - Linux Display Drivers

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NVIDIA is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to join our Linux kernel drivers team. As part of this role, you will play a crucial role in developing pioneering GPUs that drive millions of workstations, PCs, and notebooks. Our mission is to provide an exceptional visual computing experience, and we are looking to you to tackle complex system software challenges within our GPU software team. Join us as we explore the possibilities!

What you'll be doing:

• Improve existing software by debugging, analyzing, and providing solutions to complex issues in areas such as display technologies and power management.

• Design, develop, unit test, document, and maintain features for kernel mode drivers.

• Collaborate with forward-thinking and motivated engineers around the world as an equal member of a multi-site project team.

• Tackle a variety of problems that directly impact NVIDIA’s end users and partner OEMs.

• Work closely with the GPU Resource Manager Kernel driver to improve visual computing experiences.

• Hands-on experience with Linux kernel graphics subsystems, particularly Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) and Kernel Mode Setting (KMS)

What we need to see:

• Strong software engineering skills combined with a dedication to tackling hard problems.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in writing and debugging kernel mode drivers on X86/AMD64 platforms.

• Work on bring-up and integration of HDMI, DisplayPort and other popular display interfaces on Linux-based platforms. Experience with hotplug detection, EDID parsing, and mode setting for external display interfaces such as HDMI and DisplayPort.

• Strong understanding of display pipeline concepts including plane composition, CRTC, encoder, and connector layers within the DRM subsystem

• Excellent programming skills and proficiency in C/C++ language, libraries, and toolchains.

• Detailed knowledge of Linux kernel internals and low-level system programming.

• Good written and verbal communication skills, along with strong collaborative and networking abilities.

• Experience working on unreleased hardware platforms.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience with device driver development for ARM SOC platforms.

• Contributions to the development and upstreaming of open-source display drivers in the Linux kernel

• Background in embedded system software concepts, such as RTOS and overlay programming models.

• Contributions to upstream projects.

• A passion for what you do.

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