Senior Manager, System Software - Automotive

NVIDIA is looking for a highly motivated System Software Sr. Engineering Manager to join its dynamic, collaborative, and fast-paced customer interfacing organization.

In this role, you will lead a high-performing team of skilled engineers responsible for delivering NVIDIA DRIVE OS and autonomous driving software to OEM platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, grow, and mentor a high-performing engineering team responsible for porting DRIVE OS and NVIDIA autonomous driving software to OEM platforms, ensuring successful program delivery, quality, and customer outcomes.
• Lead system-level decomposition by mapping OEM's product requirements to NDAS SW components, driving alignment across cross-functional teams and ensuring clear ownership, boundaries, and interfaces.
• Drive the software architecture strategy for OEM driving functions (up to L3).
• Drive seamless execution across architecture, platform, and integration teams.
• Engage directly with OEM customers to drive requirements definition, support integration and technical issue resolution.
• Own end-to-end delivery of OEM programs, ensuring alignment to milestones, quality, and customer expectations.
• Ensure compliance with functional safety (ISO 26262) and automotive quality standards.
• Own system and vehicle integration strategy and execution, including HIL/SIL infrastructure, data collection readiness, and end-to-end function bring-up for OEM programs.
• Scale team capabilities through strategic hiring, onboarding, and continuous organizational development.

Requirements:

• Degree from a leading university or equivalent experience in an engineering or computer science related field (BS, MS or higher).
• 12+ overall years of experience in automotive/embedded systems, with proven leadership and team management experience for 5+ years.
• Fundamental knowledge on SoC architectures and on-chip components.
• Understanding of autonomous vehicle system and sensors.
• Strong knowledge of C/C++/Python, QNX and/or Linux OS.
• Understanding of CPU/GPU architectures, data structures, OS internals, multi-threading, inter-process communications, memory management techniques.
• Extensive hands-on experience in BSP porting and device driver internals.
• Knowledge and experience working in Multicore/heterogenous SoCs, camera/imaging/video/graphics/compute system.
• Excellent communication and organization skills, with a logical approach to problem solving, good time management and task prioritization as well as interpersonal skills.
• Willingness to travel worldwide to support NVIDIA partners.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Background with QNX OS for Safety (QOS).
• Experience with autonomous vehicle system integration.
• Experience with Automotive SPICE and/or ISO26262 standards.
• Extensively supported customers both onsite and offsite.
• Self-motivated and work effectively across different functional teams.