Senior System Software Engineer

NVIDIA's GeForce Now, the next-generation gaming service powered by NVIDIA GPUs in the cloud, transforms a Mac, any PC or just a mobile device into a high-performance gaming rig. GeForce NOW automatically keeps games up-to-date and users around the globe can instantly stream the latest games in high-definition resolution at the lowest latency for smoothest of gameplay. Just click and play! Visit us at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now

We are looking for a Senior Systems Software Engineer to join our team of skilled and motivated engineers. We develop highly optimized streaming clients, achieve ultra low latencies, strike the right balance between portability and performance and bring GeForce Now to the leanest of consumer devices. Are you passionate about streaming technology and driving it to its edge? Then we are keen to hear from you.

What you will be doing:

• Design, implement, and optimize video pipelines for GPU acceleration.

• Innovate, design and develop features to improve image quality, performance, reliability, security and maintainability on diverse hardware and OS environments.

• Define and develop performance metrics for targeted impact analysis, analyze, and continuously improve feature impact.

• Develop and maintain tools for video quality analysis, debugging, and performance benchmarking

• Contribute actively to code and design reviews, team processes and methodologies

What we need to see:

• Highly proficient in Objective C/ Java/ C/C++, Javascript programming

• Expert level knowledge in low-latency video streaming pipelines, including video codecs, display, color spaces, scaling and other video processing operations

• Proficiency in one or more platform-specific frameworks: DirectX, MediaFoundation, Vulkan, Metal, VideoToolbox, MediaCodec.

• Experience in building and optimizing streaming applications on different platforms including more than one of Windows/ Mac/ Linux/ Android/ iOS

• Proficient in scalable statistical data analysis methods to quantify feature effectiveness and measure product performance

• Experience integrating AI models into real time video pipelines

• Strong debugging and testing skills in system software development.

• Bachelors or Masters or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related area

• 5+ years of proven experience in systems software development with a focus on real time streaming.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience in training DL models on video data for image quality enhancements and/ or adaptive streaming

• Familiarity with graphics rendering and video playback pipeline in Chromium, WebRTC

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