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Senior System Software Engineer - AV Platform

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$184k - $287.5kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior System Software Engineer to help bring NVIDIA's autonomous vehicle platform to the market by integrating and productizing platform software for NVIDIA Drive Autonomous vehicle solutions, collaborating across sub-systems and teams to ensure production releases.

Responsibilities

  • Lead software integration with a systematic approach to streamline embedded development for NVIDIA Drive Autonomous vehicle solution products.
  • Architect and develop platform software, tools, filesystem customization, with efficient software integration in multiple OS environments with AI powered workflows.
  • Proactively work with system architects, software/firmware engineers, HW/SW QA teams, and application engineering teams to drive cross-team dependency and schedule alignment, coordinate progress, and debug issues to meet production release timelines.
  • Regularly engage with customer teams to productize workflows for platform integration.
  • Collaborate with other engineering teams to enable automated workflows for development, sanity testing, car validation, and software release deliveries.
  • Work closely with other software engineers to identify and implement build and packaging infrastructure requirements, and develop automated tests to accelerate development for Autonomous Vehicles.
  • Operate in an environment involving Hypervisor, Linux, and QNX RTOS.

Qualifications

  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 8+ years of experience working on software development autonomous vehicles.
  • Proficient debugging skills from application to kernel level on embedded hardware.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams.
  • Proven expertise in embedded systems, architecture design and SW/HW cross-domain knowledge.
  • Ability and flexibility to work and communicate effectively in a multinational, multi-time-zone corporate environment.
  • Self-motivated, organized, and proactive.

Skills

Required:Embedded systemsDebugging across stack (application to kernel)Cross-functional collaborationBuild and packaging infrastructureAutomation and testingPlatform software development
Nice to have:Customer engagementScripting/programming (Python)

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (see company benefits page)
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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