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Senior System Software Engineer - AV Platform

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$184k - $356.5kfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior hands-on system software engineer on the Autonomous Vehicles Platform, building scalable data collection and fleet software for self-driving cars, integrating sensors and developing platform/middleware features across multi-computer architectures.

Responsibilities

  • Integrating sensors into AV driving software stack.
  • Develop and improve startup user experience of the AV stack.
  • Work on sensor abstraction layers, data processing & performance optimization, data serialization, and service frameworks.
  • Collaborate with hardware, platform software, product, safety, performance, algorithms and cloud teams.

Qualifications

  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 8+ years of professional experience working on system software.
  • Excellent programming skills in C++, C and Python.
  • Familiarity with source control tools.
  • Solid understanding of Linux, QNX, ROS, and/or real-time operating systems.
  • Experience in developing user-space system software, with willingness to delve into kernel-space and/or low-level hardware when needed.
  • Knowledge about embedded system programming, threading, mutex, synchronization, communication, and parallel computing to build highly-scalable and efficient applications.
  • Familiarity with hardware architecture for CPU/GPU and memory alongside performance.
  • Prior experience in Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Self-Driving-Cars, GPU technology, Embedded Systems, Computer Vision.

Skills

Required:C++CPython

Benefits

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

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