Principal Software Engineer, Distributed Query Engines - Analytics and Data Intelligence

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We're looking for outstanding engineers and scientists to join NVIDIA’s Analytics and Data Intelligence (ADI) team. This is an outstanding chance to employ your parallel programming skills to accelerate open-source software libraries for GPU data processing. You will have the opportunity to support high-performance structured data processing on hardware from single workstations to rack-scale GPU supercomputers. You will contribute significantly to building the computational core for dataframe and database accelerators by developing highly optimized C++ and CUDA libraries. These libraries use the parallel power of GPUs to speed up tasks such as data loading, parsing, joins, aggregations, and more. Bring your creativity and problem-solving skills to our open-source software suite, and become our next major contributor!

What you’ll be doing:

• Creating and improving C++ and CUDA libraries for high-performance data processing, including end-to-end data paths from storage to GPU compute engines
• Accelerating operations such as data loading, parsing, joins, aggregations, as well as I/O, data movement, memory management, and concurrency optimization
• Collaborating with the Sales/DevRel team to support partner integration, PoCs, performance tuning, and production issue resolution with partners in China
• Implementing highly performant solutions for warehouse and Lakehouse workloads across compute, networking, and distributed storage
• Working with a globally distributed and highly technical team to drive software initiatives from architecture to delivery
• Applying deep experience with data analytics and ETL ecosystems to optimize GPU-accelerated data processing pipelines

What we need to see:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience in practice
• 15+ years of relevant software engineering experience, including substantial work in systems software, distributed data platforms, storage, databases, or accelerated computing
• Proven proficiency in C++ and CUDA programming
• Strong knowledge of data processing, data analytics, and storage environments
• Deep expertise in at least one of the following: distributed storage, database/query engine internals, high-performance I/O, accelerated computing, or large-scale data platforms
• Experience driving efficient I/O and data-movement paths across distributed/object storage, table formats (e.g., Iceberg, Parquet), Lakehouse architectures, and analytical engines
• Familiarity with, or contributions to, SiriusDB, GPU-accelerated query engines, or related projects

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Familiarity with RAPIDS cuDF
• Familiarity with S3, Parquet, and Iceberg
• Experience with cross-stack performance optimization spanning storage, networking, and CPU/GPU compute
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve production issues in complex distributed systems
• Ability to both define technical direction and personally implement critical components while driving cross-team delivery

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