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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 - $287.5k + equityfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior System Software Engineer to build NVIDIA Halos, a full-stack safety platform for physical AI across autonomous vehicles, humanoids, industrial robots, and intelligent machines. Roles span embedded systems, RTOS, virtualization, safety, security, and accelerated computing with emphasis on C and/or Ada/SPARK, formal methods, and AI-assisted engineering tools.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, design, develop, and debug system software for NVIDIA Halos OS across QNX, Linux, and hypervisor-based environments.
  • Design and develop BSP and I/O Virtualization solutions, boot, driver, diagnostics, and platform software for mixed-criticality systems on NVIDIA SoCs and edge AI platforms.
  • Develop safe and secure software aligned with ISO 26262 and ISO 21434 standards by maximising the use of Formal Methods.
  • Bring up and optimize next-generation NVIDIA platforms, working closely with ASIC, firmware, OS, safety, security, and platform teams.
  • 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, developing solutions for complex system problems, and development for real-time embedded systems
  • Strong understanding of computer architecture and operating system fundamentals
  • Strong 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 and system analyzer tools
  • A dedicated, team and results oriented, self-motivated contributor with excellent analytical and interpersonal skills

Skills

Required:C programmingAda/SPARKRTOS/embedded systems
Nice to have:QNXISO 26262 / ISO 21434

Benefits

  • equity
  • comprehensive benefits package
  • base salary and bonuses/compensation eligible per location
Last updated Aug 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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