NVIDIA is looking for a Principal System Software Engineer to lead innovations in automotive platform software and system architecture. This role involves collaborating with various teams to develop high-performance, scalable, and safety-critical system software solutions. The engineer will leverage deep technical expertise to solve complex challenges across the software stack. This position requires substantial hands-on experience and a commitment to technical excellence.

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 15+ years of substantial hands-on experience in systems software, embedded systems, platform software, kernel development, or performance engineering.
• Deep expertise in Linux system internals, kernel architecture, device drivers, and low-level system software development.
• Strong programming skills in C/C++ with experience in Python or scripting languages.
• Proven experience debugging and optimizing complex distributed or heterogeneous computing systems.
• Strong background in performance analysis and optimization across CPU, GPU, memory, storage, and interconnect subsystems.
• Experience with embedded Linux, RTOS, virtualization technologies, or multi-core system architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technically while remaining deeply hands-on in development, debugging, and architecture activities.
• Experience collaborating across hardware and software organizations in highly matrixed environments.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and technical leadership skills.

• Drive system software architecture and technical direction for next-generation automotive compute platforms.
• Lead performance optimization initiatives across CPU, GPU, memory, storage, networking, and platform subsystems.
• Design, develop, debug, and optimize low-level system software including kernel, drivers, middleware, runtime frameworks, and platform services.
• Collaborate closely with silicon, firmware, AI, and platform architecture teams to deliver optimized end-to-end solutions.
• Analyze complex system bottlenecks and develop scalable solutions to improve performance, reliability, determinism, and efficiency.
• Drive software bring-up, profiling, debugging, and performance tuning for new automotive platforms.
• Contribute hands-on to critical software development, architecture reviews, debugging, and system optimization efforts.
• Mentor engineers and help drive a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and execution.

• 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.