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Senior System Software Engineer - Platform Software

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA, Westford, MA$224k - $356.5kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior System Software Engineer focused on Platform Software for SOC and system-level drivers, BSPs, CI/CD tooling, and collaboration with OEMs across pre-silicon to production.

Responsibilities

  • Developing and triaging platform drivers which goes into SOCs
  • Building sophisticated automation triage tools and issue packetizations for FW and OS drivers
  • Supporting OS driver development, bring up and triaging of Platform and Multimedia drivers
  • Supporting the OEM ecosystem and providing innovative solutions
  • Assist Boot KPIs, Security and OS drivers
  • Supporting many ecosystems related verticals
  • Follow devices from pre-silicon to bringup to production across different business verticals
  • Be heavily involved in architecture definition and early modeling, simulation required to create groundbreaking products
  • Collaborate and communicate effectively with teams from around the globe

Qualifications

  • BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
  • 12+ years of meaningful software development experience
  • Strong understanding of ARM microarchitecture and ARM exception levels
  • Experience solving problems in large complex systems deployed at scale
  • Strong C/C++ and Python programming skills with independent coding projects
  • Good understanding of ACPI and Device tree concepts
  • Familiarity with computer system architecture, microprocessor and microcontroller fundamentals (caches, buses, memory controllers, DMA, etc.)
  • Strong OS fundamentals with Kernel and Hypervisor experience on Windows and Linux systems
  • Hands-on experience with debuggers like GDB, WinDBG and compilers like GCC, MSVC, LLVM
  • Good understanding of SOC architecture spanning Boot, Security and OS

Skills

Required:ARM architecture understandingC/C++PythonACPI / Device TreeOS / Kernel / Hypervisor

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits (see company benefits page)
Last updated Sep 11, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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