Principal System Software Engineer - Automotive Compute

NVIDIA Corporation

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 272,000 - 431,000

Full time

14 days+

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NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara seeks a Principal System Software Engineer to drive automotive platform software, architecture, and performance engineering. You will contribute to the design, development, optimization, and scaling of foundational software powering NVIDIA automotive compute platforms.

You will work with silicon, firmware, AI, middleware, and platform teams to deliver high-performance, scalable, and safety-critical system software.

Qualifications

15+ years hands-on experience in systems software.
Deep expertise in Linux internals and kernel development.
Strong C/C++ and Python programming skills.

Responsibilities

Drive system software architecture and technical direction for next-generation automotive compute platforms.
Lead performance optimization across CPU, GPU, memory, storage, networking, and platform subsystems.
Design, develop, debug, and optimize low-level system software including kernel, drivers, middleware, runtime frameworks, and platform services.
Collaborate with silicon, firmware, AI, and platform architecture teams to deliver optimized end-to-end solutions.
Analyze bottlenecks and develop scalable solutions to improve performance, reliability, determinism, and efficiency.
Drive software bring-up, profiling, debugging, and performance tuning for new automotive platforms.
Mentor engineers and foster technical excellence and execution.