Nvidia Senior Systems Software Engineer - Linux Display Drivers 

India, Maharashtra, Pune 

676604293

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.