Software Engineer Kernel Salaries in United States
$121,545
avg per year
The average salary for Software Engineer Kernel jobs near United States is $121,545.*
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Top Software Engineer Kernel jobs near United States
View AllSoftware Engineer, Linux Kernel - Networking
NVIDIA
Santa Clara, CA
Collaborate with architecture and different software/FW design teams as part of the software development lifecycle. Background in Linux internals (Kernel).
$124,000 - $241,500 a year
AI Software Engineer, Kernel Libraries - New College Grad 2026
NVIDIA
Santa Clara, CA
This means designing and building things like new abstractions, efficient attention kernel implementations, new LLM inference runtimes components, and kernel…
$124,000 - $241,500 a year
Software Engineer, AI and DL Kernel Libraries - New College Grad 2026
NVIDIA
Santa Clara, CA
This means designing and building things like new abstractions, efficient attention kernel implementations, new LLM inference runtimes components, and kernel…
$124,000 - $241,500 a year
Kernel Driver Software Engineer
Etched
San Jose, CA
Diagnose and resolve complex driver-related issues, using common kernel debugging tools and techniques (ftrace, dmesg, etc.) to identify and fix bugs.
$150,000 - $275,000 a year
Senior Linux Kernel Software Engineer
NVIDIA
Santa Clara, CA
Driving a complete engineering process, including refining requirements, engineering design of data structures/algorithms, implementation, peer review,…
$184,000 - $356,500 a year
Senior AI Software Engineer, Kernel Libraries
NVIDIA
Santa Clara, CA
This means designing and building things like new abstractions, efficient attention kernel implementations, new LLM inference runtimes components, and kernel…
$184,000 - $287,500 a year
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- Santa Clara, CA97 jobs
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