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Senior Security Software Engineer - AV Platform

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$152k - $241.5kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Cybersecurity Software Engineer for Autonomous Vehicles Platform. Hands-on role developing security features for AV platform software, spanning sensors, data processing, middleware, and collaboration across platform, embedded, cloud, safety, and performance teams.

Responsibilities

  • Integrating security features into AV driving software stack.
  • Develop and improve security work-products for AV stack.
  • Work 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).
  • 5+ year of professional experience working on system software.
  • Excellent programming skills in C++, C and Python.
  • Experience in architectural security analysis techniques such as threat modeling, risk analysis, attack trees, etc. (using STRIDE, HEAVENS) and managing resultant Product Security Requirements.
  • Experience with automotive cybersecurity standards/regulations (e.g., ISO 21434, SAE J3061, UNECE Regulation 155) or other standards/regulations relevant to automotive industry and/or cybersecurity (e.g., GDPR).
  • Solid understanding of Linux, QNX, ROS, and/or real-time operating systems.
  • Experience in developing user-space system software, with 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.
  • Prior experience working in Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Self-Driving-Cars, CPU/GPU technology, Embedded Systems, Computer Vision.

Skills

Required:C++CPythonThreat modelingAutomotive cybersecurity standards

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (see company link)
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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