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Principal System Software Engineer - AV Platform

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$272k - $431.3kfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Principal System Software Engineer to drive architecture, development, optimization, and scaling of automotive platform software and system architecture for NVIDIA automotive compute platforms. Lead performance, bring-up, debugging, and cross-disciplinary collaboration with hardware, firmware, AI, and platform teams.

Responsibilities

  • Drive system software architecture and technical direction for next-generation automotive compute platforms.
  • Lead performance optimization initiatives across CPU, GPU, memory, storage, networking, and platform subsystems.
  • Design, develop, debug, and optimize low-level system software including kernel, drivers, middleware, runtime frameworks, and platform services.
  • Collaborate closely with silicon, firmware, AI, and platform architecture teams to deliver optimized end-to-end solutions.
  • Analyze complex system bottlenecks and develop scalable solutions to improve performance, reliability, determinism, and efficiency.
  • Drive software bring-up, profiling, debugging, and performance tuning for new automotive platforms.
  • Contribute hands-on to critical software development, architecture reviews, debugging, and system optimization efforts.
  • Mentor engineers and help drive a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and execution.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 15+ years of substantial hands-on experience in systems software, embedded systems, platform software, kernel development, or performance engineering.
  • Deep expertise in Linux system internals, kernel architecture, device drivers, and low-level system software development.
  • Strong programming skills in C/C++ with experience in Python or scripting languages.
  • Proven experience debugging and optimizing complex distributed or heterogeneous computing systems.
  • Strong background in performance analysis and optimization across CPU, GPU, memory, storage, and interconnect subsystems.
  • Experience with embedded Linux, RTOS, virtualization technologies, or multi-core system architectures.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technically while remaining deeply hands-on in development, debugging, and architecture activities.
  • Experience collaborating across hardware and software organizations in highly matrixed environments.
  • Strong communication, problem-solving, and technical leadership skills.

Skills

Required:Linux system internalsC/C++Performance analysisKernel development

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits
Last updated Sep 4, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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