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Senior System Software Engineer - Halos Core and Robotics Platform

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$184k - $287.5kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior System Software Engineer to build NVIDIA Halos, a full-stack safety platform for physical AI in autonomous vehicles, humanoids, industrial robots, and intelligent machines. Roles span embedded systems, RTOS, virtualization, safety, security, and accelerated computing across QNX, Linux, and hypervisor environments.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, design, develop, and debug system software for NVIDIA Halos OS across QNX, Linux, and hypervisor-based environments
  • Design and develop BSP, boot, driver, device-management, diagnostics, and platform software for NVIDIA SoCs and edge AI platforms
  • Develop safe and secure software that follows ISO 26262 and ISO 21434 standards
  • Bring up and optimize next-generation NVIDIA platforms, working closely with ASIC, firmware, OS, safety, security, and platform teams
  • Design & develop I/O Virtualization solutions for mixed-criticality systems
  • Use Formal Methods to architect and develop high integrity software
  • Develop and use GenAI and AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate debugging, test development, code review, documentation, requirements analysis, and workflow automation
  • Design debugging, tracing, logging, and performance-analysis solutions that improve developer experience

Qualifications

  • Bachelors/Masters or equivalent experience in Computer Science
  • 8+ years of experience in System Software architecture and development for real time embedded systems
  • Strong understanding of computer architecture and operating system fundamentals
  • Experience designing and developing complex system solutions, including virtualized system configurations
  • Strong Python/C and/or Ada/SPARK programming and debugging skills
  • Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools for coding, debugging, testing, documentation, or workflow automation
  • Hands-on experience with debugging tools, performance analysis, system analyzer tools and Platform bring up
  • A dedicated, team and results oriented, self-motivated contributor with excellent analytical and interpersonal skills

Skills

Required:System Software ArchitectureRTOSC and/or Ada/SPARKPython
Nice to have:Formal MethodsISO 26262 / ISO 21434AI-assisted development tools

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits (as per NVIDIA offerings)
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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