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Senior Security Software Engineer - AV Platform

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

About the role

Cybersecurity Software Engineer for Autonomous Vehicles Platform, focusing on secure data collection and AV stack software, including sensor security integration and platform/middleware security features.

Responsibilities

  • Integrating security features into our AV driving software stack.
  • Develop and improve security work-products for our AV stack.
  • Working on security-related software code ranging from sensor abstraction layers to data processing to middleware software.
  • Work on security governance topics and guide other teams with security mechanism implementation.
  • Collaborate with hardware, platform software, product, safety, performance, algorithms and cloud teams.

Qualifications

  • BS or MS degree 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 a 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 working in Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Self-Driving-Cars, GPU technology, Embedded Systems, Computer Vision.
  • Outstanding communication skills and teamwork.

Skills

Required:C++CPythonLinuxSecurity
Nice to have:QNXROS

Benefits

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

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