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Senior System Software Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles Platform

NVIDIA
Santa Clara, CA Full-time 2/4/2026 $224k - $431.2k per year
Master's with 2+ Years of Experience
Approval 99.2%Total filings 1,781New hires 873
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FY 2025

Job Description

The Senior System Software Engineer will join NVIDIA's Autonomous Vehicles Platform team to develop and productize innovative solutions for self-driving cars. This role involves collaborating with multi-functional engineering teams to integrate their work into the autonomous driving DRIVE SW platform while ensuring compliance with automotive standards.

Requirements

  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 12+ years of experience working on software development for autonomous vehicles
  • Proficient debugging skills from application to kernel level on embedded hardware
  • Strong software development skills in Python
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams
  • Experience in software architecture design
  • Proven expertise in embedded systems and SW/HW cross-domain knowledge
  • Ability and flexibility to work and communicate effectively in a multinational, multi-time-zone corporate environment
  • Self-motivated, organized, and proactive

Responsibilities

  • Lead software integration with a systematic approach to streamline embedded development within NVIDIA and across NVIDIA Drive Autonomous vehicle solution partners
  • Architect and develop platform software, tools, filesystem customization, and software integration in various OS environments
  • Collaborate with other engineering teams to enable CI for automated sanity testing, car validation, and software release delivery
  • Proactively work with system architects, software/firmware engineers, HW/SW QA teams, and application engineering teams to drive cross-team dependency and schedule alignment, coordinate progress, and debug issues to meet production release timelines
  • Enhance integration efficiency to facilitate low latency development on Tegra-based Autonomous Vehicle Simulation & car platforms
  • Regularly engage with customer teams to productize workflows for platform integration
  • Work closely with other software engineers to identify and implement build and packaging infrastructure requirements, and develop automated tests to accelerate development for Autonomous Vehicles
  • Operate in an environment involving Hypervisor, Linux, and QNX RTOS

Benefits

  • Employees at NVIDIA are often offered comprehensive, day-one benefits—including medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA support, life and disability insurance, an Employee Assistance Program, and a 401(k) with auto-enrollment. Many roles also have generous time off and holidays, donation matching (up to $10,000), and a wide menu of extras like FSAs, commuter benefits, legal and identity-theft protection, pet insurance, and wellness discounts. Optional programs can include student-loan and home-purchase support, plus family care resources and expert medical services.