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Senior Systems Software Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$184k - $287.5kfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Systems Engineer for the ADAS Platform, focused on architectural improvements, modularization, and cross-team integration to support scalable, multi-OEM autonomous vehicle software platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Driving architectural improvements that simplify and modularize the software stack.
  • Designing clean boundaries between NVIDIA core components and OEM-specific implementations.
  • Refactoring ADAS components to support reuse, extensibility, and long-term maintainability.
  • Improving system-level scalability through IPC, middleware, and platform abstraction layers.
  • Partnering with teams across software, systems, and hardware to define clear interfaces and improve integration velocity.
  • Establishing test coverage, design reviews, and architectural documentation that scales with the platform.
  • Profiling and tuning system performance — optimizing for modern multi-core and real-time environments.

Qualifications

  • BS or MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 8+ years of professional software development experience.
  • Solid background in C and C++ programming.
  • Strong understanding of modular software architecture, clean code design, and separation of concerns.
  • Hands-on experience building and debugging multithreaded, real-time, or performance-critical systems.
  • Familiarity with parallel/distributed systems and low-level system profiling.
  • Comfortable working in Linux, QNX, or other embedded RTOS environments.
  • Exceptional communication skills and a collaborative, hard-working attitude.

Skills

Required:C/C++ programmingModular software architectureMultithreading / real-time systemsLinux / embedded RTOS (e.g., QNX)

Benefits

  • equity and benefits (link provided in job description)
Last updated Sep 4, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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