Tegra System Software Engineer

at Nvidia

📍 Santa Clara, United States

USD 152,000-287,500 per year

MIDDLE SENIOR

✅ On-site

Tech Stack
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Details

NVIDIA is seeking a creative and highly motivated system software engineer to join the Tegra system-on-chip (SoC) Software organization. The role focuses on designing key aspects of Tegra SoC kernel drivers and embedded software for ARM SoCs across pre-silicon and silicon platforms.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and verify features for next-generation SoC architectures in collaboration with hardware and software engineers.
Contribute to early modeling and simulation required to produce NVIDIA products.
Work closely with hardware, silicon, and pre-silicon teams to bring up new platforms, products, and prototype systems.
Enable core operating system software on new platforms during SoC bring-up.
Develop, unit test, document, and maintain features for Tegra SoCs.
Influence hardware architecture and system software by creating architecture and design specifications.

Requirements

Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
5+ years of relevant software development experience.
Proven leadership skills and strong ownership of past projects.
Hands-on technical experience and demonstrated excellence in environments involving complex software and hardware designs.
Outstanding C programming and low-level driver development experience.
Strong background in complex system-level debugging.
Experience with ARM-based processor architecture.
Familiarity with computer system architecture, microprocessors, and microcontroller fundamentals, including caches, buses, memory controllers, and DMA.

Preferred Qualifications

Chip or board bring-up experience.
Experience developing high-quality embedded code.
Experience with JTAG and other debugging tools.

Benefits

NVIDIA offers competitive salaries, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package. The base salary range is USD 152,000–241,500 for Level 3 and USD 184,000–287,500 for Level 4. The posting will be accepted at least until October 3, 2026. NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer.