Senior System Software Engineer - Av Platform

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer for their Autonomous Vehicles Platform team. The role involves implementing performant and scalable solutions for data collection and autonomous vehicle fleets, focusing on platform and middleware features. Responsibilities include sensor integration, improving AV stack user experience, and working on areas like sensor abstraction, data processing, and performance optimization. The ideal candidate will have strong C++, C, and Python skills, familiarity with Linux/QNX/ROS, and experience in system software development, embedded systems, and computer vision within the autonomous vehicle or robotics domain.

What you'd actually do

  1. Integrating sensors into our AV driving software stack.
  2. Develop and improve startup user experience of our AV stack
  3. Working on areas such as sensor abstraction layers, data processing and performance optimization, data serialization, and service frameworks.
  4. Collaborate with hardware, platform software, product, safety, performance, algorithms and cloud teams.

Skills

Required

  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 6+ year of professional experience working on system software
  • Excellent programming skills in C++, C and Python
  • Familiarity with source control tools
  • Solid understanding of Linux, QNX, ROS, and/or real-time operating systems
  • Experience in developing user-space system software, with a 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
  • Familiarity with hardware architecture for CPU/GPU and memory alongside performance
  • Prior experience working in the following areas: Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Self-Driving-Cars, GPU technology, Embedded Systems, Computer Vision
  • Outstanding communication skills and teamwork

Nice to have

  • Deep understanding of system architecture, CPU/GPU/Memory/Storage, everything related to performance optimization
  • Experience in Autonomous Vehicle or Robotic System Building
  • Hand-on experience in embedded development, operating systems and real-time software

What the JD emphasized

  • 6+ year of professional experience working on system software
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Robotics
  • Self-Driving-Cars
  • Computer Vision