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Senior System Software Engineer - Tegra

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$184k - $287.5kfull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

System Software Engineer role in NVIDIA's System Software group focusing on Tegra Diagnostics, developing drivers, tests, and frameworks for stress-testing SOC/system across user-space, kernel, firmware, and boot software; collaborating on system architecture, design validation, and debug/remediation for complex data center module failures.

Responsibilities

  • Develop drivers/tests and frameworks that can stress the SOC/System across full software development lifecycle (user-space, kernel, firmware or boot software).
  • Participate in system architecture analysis and collaborate with internal software teams to define/design use cases to push SOC/system limits (power, noise, bandwidth).
  • Lead initiatives to improve efficiency, robustness, and user friendliness of software for design validation, thermal & power characterization, manufacturing screening, and external customer bring-up.
  • Understand and participate in debug/root cause analysis of complex data center module/rack level failures; recommend remediations and drive software architecture improvements.
  • Communicate optimally with various teams, customers, and partners.

Qualifications

  • BS/MS in EE/CS or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of experience
  • Strong C/C++ programming and object-oriented programming skills
  • Experience with low level / driver level programming
  • Understanding of processor architecture fundamentals, preferably ARM
  • Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
  • Strong communication, interpersonal and planning skills

Skills

Required:C/C++ programmingLow-level/driver programmingProcessor architecture

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (as per NVIDIA offerings)
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