Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Agentic Development for Safety-Critical Systems

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 272,000 - 431,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara is seeking a deeply technical engineering manager to lead a core team building a production platform for agentic engineering. You will translate precise specifications into production-ready C/C++ and Rust software for safety-critical driver development.

You will define architecture and strategy, build real workflows, and validate results across DRIVE OS teams. This role demands 10+ years in software with leadership and strong collaboration skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in CS/engineering.
• 10+ years software engineering with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale software projects.
• Understanding of safety-critical development and ISO 26262/DO-178C.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-impact core team building the future safety-ready agentic workflow for complex C/C++/Rust systems software and drivers.
• Define the architecture and technical strategy for taking clear specifications through design, implementation, integration, testing, debugging, validation, review, and release.
• Build agents and workflows that perform real systems-development work, including feature implementation, defect diagnosis and repair, regression analysis, refactoring, test development, performance optimization, and compatibility analysis.
• Develop the harnesses, skills, tools, evaluations, deterministic validators, observability, and feedback loops that make agentic development dependable and continuously improving.

Skills

Leadership

Architectural design

C/C++/Rust systems software

Driver software development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

C/C++

Rust

Job description

About the role

The software behind autonomous vehicles, medical robots, and humanoids has to do more than work—it has to earn the trust of the people who depend on it. NVIDIA platforms help bring these machines into the world, and the correctness, security, and reliability of their underlying systems software can have real human consequences. Producing software at this level requires rare systems expertise, painstaking validation, and disciplined engineering across every subsystem. We are building a new kind of agentic engineering system to make that rigor repeatable: translating precise specifications into production-ready C/C++ and Rust software, continuously challenging and validating the result, and producing the evidence engineers need to understand why it is ready to ship. NVIDIA is seeking a deeply technical engineering manager to lead the core team building this capability. You will combine AI agents, systems engineering, deterministic validation, security, and functional-safety practices into a production platform. You will prove it against real driver-development work, then scale what succeeds across Graphics, Camera, Multimedia, PVA, and other DRIVE OS teams.

What you will be doing

• Lead a high-impact core team building the future safety-ready agentic workflow for complex C/C++/Rust systems software and drivers.
• Define the architecture and technical strategy for taking clear specifications through design, implementation, integration, testing, debugging, validation, review, and release.
• Build agents and workflows that perform real systems-development work, including feature implementation, defect diagnosis and repair, regression analysis, refactoring, test development, performance optimization, and compatibility analysis.
• Develop the harnesses, skills, tools, evaluations, deterministic validators, observability, and feedback loops that make agentic development dependable and continuously improving.
• Create an engineering culture that combines ambitious invention with intellectual honesty, technical depth, measurable evidence, and an uncompromising quality bar.

What we need to see

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ overall years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Proven track record of managing and delivering large-scale, complex software projects.
• Strong understanding of safety-critical system development and relevant industry standards (such as ISO 26262, DO-178C).
• Outstanding problem-solving abilities and the capacity to perform well under pressure.
• Effective communication and partnership skills, enabling productive work with different teams.

Ways to stand out from the crowd

• Experience leading development of graphics, display, camera, multimedia, networking, storage, kernel, or other production driver software.
• Experience building developer platforms, autonomous engineering systems, or multi-agent infrastructure adopted across multiple production software teams.
• Significant contributions to agentic systems, systems software, developer tools, safety/security engineering, or open-source ecosystems.
• Experience with NVIDIA DRIVE OS, QNX, automotive software, ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, formal verification, or safety- and cybersecurity-evidence pipelines.
• Strong understanding of the engineering realities of driver software, including concurrency, memory safety, ABI and platform boundaries, hardware/firmware interaction, debugging on target, performance, compatibility, CI, and release engineering.

Benefits and compensation

• Competitive salaries and a generous benefits package (www.nvidiabenefits.com).
• Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.
• The base salary range is 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD.
• You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
• Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 17, 2026.

Equal Opportunity

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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