NVIDIA
Senior System Software Engineer - AV Platform
$152K–$288K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 29, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional experience working on system software.
- Education
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Develop and maintain system software, middleware, and tools for autonomous-vehicle platforms, including sensor integration, data collection, and fleet operations.
What you'll do
- Integrate sensors into the AV software stack and improve startup experience.
- Develop data recording and mining software, including sensor abstractions, data processing, serialization, and service frameworks.
- Collaborate across hardware, platform, product, safety, performance, algorithms, and cloud teams.
What they ask for
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 5+ years of professional experience working on system software.
- Excellent programming skills in C++, C and Python.
- Experience developing user-space system software; solid understanding of Linux, QNX, ROS, and/or real-time operating systems.
Nice to have
- Prior experience in Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Self-Driving-Cars, GPU technology, or Embedded Systems.
- Deep system-architecture and performance-optimization knowledge, or hands-on embedded, operating-system, and real-time software experience.
Pay
152,000 USD - 241,500 USD (base salary, Level 3); 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD (base salary, Level 4)
Tools
C++, C, Python, Linux, QNX, ROS
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