Comment by danjl

I recommend getting a job at NVIDIA. They care deeply about SW. It is a great place to learn about HW and the supporting SW. There is much to learn. Maybe you will learn why you are unimpressed with their SW offerings. For me, the hard part was the long lead time (8+ years) from design to customers using the product. One of the things that always amazed me about NVIDIA was that so many of the senior architects, who have no financial need to keep working (true for more than a decade), are still working there because they need the company to do what they love.