Senior System Software Integration and Debug Engineer

at Nvidia

📍 Santa Clara, United States

USD 224,000-431,200 per year

SENIOR

✅ On-site

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Details

NVIDIA is searching for highly motivated, creative engineers to join the Platform Software team. You will work with software engineers across SOC, systems, and technology verticals to design SOC drivers, BSP, sophisticated CI/CD systems, and collaborate with partners and OEM customers.

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end software integration strategy for products across firmware, BSP, drivers, GPU software, services, test, and release systems.
Lead system-level debugging of boot failures, hangs, crashes, unexpected resets, power-transition failures, performance regressions, update failures, and firmware/driver interactions.
Use crash dumps, event logs, traces, UART output, firmware logs, telemetry, and hardware diagnostics to isolate failures across system layers.
Build automated failure classification to distinguish product defects from infrastructure, configuration, device, test-harness, and flaky-test failures.
Drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions for escaped defects, integration failures, and recurring infrastructure problems.
Integrate OEM and partner software into the NVIDIA software stack to ensure compliance, stability, and power/performance benchmarks for production platforms.
Work closely with multifunctional teams to prioritize issues across BSP components, including firmware, drivers, kernel, and hardware layers.
Collaborate with architecture, silicon, firmware, and OS engineering teams to enable new features and ensure cross-component integration.

Requirements

BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
12+ years of relevant software development experience.
Strong understanding of ARM microarchitecture and exception levels, with an emphasis on integration, triage, and debugging.
Understanding of SoC architecture spanning boot, security, power, and OS bring-up.
Good understanding of ACPI and Device Tree concepts.
Proficiency in C/C++ and Python for automation and validation tooling.
Solid understanding of kernel and hypervisor internals on Windows and Linux systems.
Experience integrating drivers and firmware and debugging kernel components, with a specific focus on Windows.
Background solving problems within large, complex systems deployed at scale.

Preferred Qualifications

Sophisticated system-level debugging experience.
Experience working on system-level reliability and resiliency features.
Experience with end-to-end product integration and deliverables.
Familiarity with system-level security concepts.
Experience with embedded system software concepts.

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary range for Level 5: USD 224,000–356,500 per year.
Base salary range for Level 6: USD 272,000–431,250 per year.
Base salary is determined based on location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.
Eligible for equity and benefits.
Applications will be accepted at least until September 21, 2026.
NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer.