Nvidia Senior Software Engineer - GeForce Video Streaming Technology 

United States, California 

840178801

What you will be doing:

• Design and develop new video streaming functionalities, delivering new interactive experiences

• Innovate, design, and develop features to improve image quality, performance, reliability, security, and maintainability

• Analyze GPU/CPU performance for the video pipeline, isolate bottlenecks, and implement solutions in collaboration with GPU hardware and software teams to deliver top performance

• Develop tools to measure video quality experienced by users and refine to enable evaluation of quality improvements with high confidence

• Leverage features and toolsets in the latest video compression technologies to deliver high-quality streaming solutions tailored for different interactive graphics applications

• Apply machine learning and AI models to develop specialized video processing and adaptive streaming algorithms to minimize perceptible artifacts while delivering the lowest latency under different network conditions.

What we need to see:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience.

• Proficiency in C, C++, Python

• Experience with GPU-accelerated video and graphics pipelines, usage of hardware-based video encoders, color spaces, operations such as video scaling, tone mapping, etc.

• Familiarity with API frameworks such as Vulkan, CUDA, OpenGL and DX

• Solid understanding of toolsets in different video codecs like H.264, HEVC, and AV1, including tuning codec configurations to meet application requirements and trade-offs.

• Proficiency in telemetry, statistical data analysis, and performance monitoring to measure and optimize video quality, latency, and system performance in cloud infrastructures.

• Experience in using and integrating AI models into real-time video pipelines

• Strong understanding of different layers of the software stack, including OS internals, user-mode and kernel-mode drivers, strong system software performance analysis, testing, and debugging skills

• 5+ years of experience in the above areas

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Background in optimizing video pipelines on multiple GPU families, such as Intel integrated and AMD GPUs

• Experience writing or analyzing graphics rendering applications or sophisticated AI-based graphics generation, such as DLSS, RTX, FSR