Senior System Software Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

at Nvidia

📍 Santa Clara, United States

USD 184,000-356,500 per year

SENIOR

✅ On-site

Tech Stack
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Details

The Autonomous Vehicles Platform team is looking for a Senior System Software Engineer to help build the NVIDIA DriveWorks SDK, a scalable software stack and framework for autonomous vehicles. The role focuses on core technology including sensor drivers and interfaces, data streaming, data recording and playback, and vehicle interface abstraction.

Responsibilities

Create and optimize software architectures and frameworks for real-world performance while meeting or exceeding customer requirements.
Work with vendors developing innovative vehicle sensors.
Develop sensor drivers, plug-ins, and processing functions around sensor data.
Create highly efficient sensor data recording, playback, and visualization tools.
Perform in-vehicle testing, collect data, and analyze data integrity.
Work with car and control teams to develop vehicle interfaces that enable self-driving.
Support data collection campaigns for the autonomous vehicle program.
Develop unit tests and feature documentation, evaluate quality, and propose corrective actions.
Create highly efficient product code in C++, using the high algorithmic parallelism offered by GPGPU programming with CUDA.
Follow quality and safety standards such as MISRA.

Requirements

Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Excellent C and C++ programming skills.
At least 8 years of proven experience developing and debugging multithreaded or distributed applications, such as multimedia systems or game engines.
Strong knowledge of programming and debugging techniques, especially for parallel and distributed architectures.
Background in Linux, Android, and/or other real-time operating systems.
Experience with sensors such as cameras, LiDAR, radar, ultrasonics, IMU, and GPS.
Experience with vehicle control interfaces.
Ability to write low-latency, highly performant code.
Strong communication and analytical skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Understanding of embedded architectures.
Experience with data-parallel and/or GPGPU programming, CUDA, and OpenCL.
Experience developing software for modern OpenGL Core Profile and Linux.
Experience with Git version control and the CMake build system.

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary range of USD 184,000–287,500 for Level 4.
Base salary range of USD 224,000–356,500 for Level 5.
Eligibility for equity and benefits.
Applications will be accepted at least until May 1, 2026.
NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse work environment.