Senior System Software Engineer - AV Platform

The Autonomous Vehicles Platform team at NVIDIA is looking for a hands-on Senior System Software Engineer to work on the Autonomous Driving Platform software. You will implement performant and scalable solutions for data collection and autonomous vehicle fleets. The team develops platform and middleware features for self-driving cars, including software that interacts with various sensors such as Cameras, LIDAR, RADAR, GPS, IMU, and Vehicle CAN.

Responsibilities:

• Integrate sensors into the AV driving software stack.
• Develop and improve the startup user experience of the AV stack.
• Work on areas such as sensor abstraction layers, data processing and performance optimization, data serialization, and service frameworks.
• Collaborate with hardware, platform software, product, safety, performance, algorithms, and cloud teams.

Requirements:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of professional experience working on system software.
• Excellent programming skills in C++, C, and Python.
• Familiarity with source control tools.
• Solid understanding of Linux, QNX, ROS, and/or real-time operating systems.
• Experience in developing user-space system software, with a willingness to delve into kernel-space and/or low-level hardware when needed.
• Knowledge about embedded system programming, threading, mutex, synchronization, communication, and parallel computing to build highly-scalable and efficient applications.
• Familiarity with hardware architecture for CPU/GPU and memory alongside performance.
• Prior experience working in the following areas: Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Self-Driving-Cars, GPU technology, Embedded Systems, Computer Vision.

Benefits:

• Equity
• Various benefits (details not specified)

Application deadline: May 22, 2026