Senior C++ Software Engineer – AI Developer Tools

About the role

The NVIDIA PerfTech team is seeking a senior C++ Software Engineer to build AI‑powered developer tools that help engineers find information, understand complex systems, and work more efficiently.

Key responsibilities

• Develop production‑quality C++ components, APIs, and integrations for NVIDIA’s AI‑powered developer‑tools ecosystem.
• Build capabilities that connect native C++ tools with Genie’s retrieval and agentic features.
• Contribute to agentic workflows, retrieval systems, ingestion pipelines, MCP tools, APIs, and enterprise integrations.
• Design and run benchmarks, improving retrieval quality, reliability, performance, and resource usage.
• Own features from investigation and design through implementation, testing, and delivery.
• Collaborate with graphics, software, and hardware teams developing performance‑analysis and developer tools.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of modern C++ programming experience.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, object‑oriented design, multithreading, debugging, and testing.
• Ability to work across C++ systems and Python‑based AI services.
• Good communication and collaboration skills, with openness to technical feedback.

Required skills

• C++ (modern)
• Python
• Multithreading
• Debugging and testing
• REST APIs
• MCP
• Agentic workflows
• Retrieval systems
• Semantic search, embeddings, vector databases