# Tegra System-on-Chip (SOC) Software Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $152,000 - $241,500 for Level 3 and $184,000 - $287,500 for Level 4
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA's Tegra Team is seeking a highly motivated engineer with expertise in system software to join the Tegra system-on-chip (SOC) Software organization. You will design key aspects of our Tegra SoC kernel drivers and embedded Software. This role will be dedicated to advancing ARM SoC on pre-silicon and silicon platforms.

**Responsibilities:**

- Design, develop and verify features for our next generation SoC architecture, collaborating with hardware engineers and fellow software engineers.

- Be heavily involved with the early modeling simulation required to produce our outstanding products.

- Work closely with the hardware, silicon, pre-silicon teams to bring-up new platforms, products, and prototype systems.

- Be involved in SoC bringup with a focus on enabling the core OS software on new platforms.

- Craft, develop, unit test, document and maintain features for Tegra SoCs.

- Influence hardware architecture and system software by creating architecture and design specifications.

**Requirements:**

- BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree or equivalent experience.

- 5+ years of relevant software development experience.

- Proven leadership skills and strong ownership on past projects.

- Hands-on technical experience and demonstrated excellence in an environment with complex software and hardware designs.

- Outstanding C programming and low-level driver experience; background and strength with complex system-level debugging.

- Experience with ARM-based processor architecture.

- Familiarity with computer system architecture, microprocessor, and microcontroller fundamentals (caches, buses, memory controllers, DMA, etc.).

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Background with Chip or Board bring-up.

- Experience developing high-quality embedded code.

- Experience with JTAG and other debugging tools.

NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. The base salary range is $152,000 - $241,500 for Level 3 and $184,000 - $287,500 for Level 4.

## Skills

### Required
- C programming
- low-level driver experience
- ARM-based processor architecture
- computer system architecture
- microcontroller fundamentals

### Nice to have
- Chip or Board bring-up
- embedded code development
- JTAG and debugging tools

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