Senior Platform Software Engineer: GPU & SOC, Equity

2100 NVIDIA USA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking highly motivated engineers to join the Platform Software team to design SOC drivers, firmware, BIOS, and advanced CI/CD systems. You will collaborate with OEMs and partners to deliver cutting-edge platform software across multiple verticals.

The role spans full product lifecycles from pre-silicon bring-up to production, including OS-driver verification, run-time bring-up on silicon, and post-silicon milestones. Strong ARM knowledge and C/C++ skills are essential.

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience (12+ years of software development).
• Strong understanding of ARM microarchitecture and ARM exception levels.
• Background in Pre-OS Firmware, uP/subsystems Firmware and Software, peripherals.
• Experience solving problems in large complex systems deployed at scale.
• Strong C/C++ and Python programming skills; independent coding project experience.
• Good understanding of ACPI and Device Tree concepts.
• Familiarity with computer system architecture, microprocessor, and microcontroller fundamentals.
• Strong OS fundamentals with Kernel/Hypervisor experience on Windows and Linux.
• Hands-on debugging with GDB/WinDBG and compilers (GCC, MSVC, LLVM).
• Understanding of SOC architecture across Boot, Security and OS.

Responsibilities

• Develop and triage platform drivers going into SOCs.
• Build automation triage tools and firmware/OS-driver packetizations.
• Support OS driver development, bring-up and triaging Platform and Multimedia drivers.
• Assist OEM ecosystem with innovative solutions and cross-functional collaboration.
• Drive Startup/Shutdown Time KPIs and optimization.
• Support various ecosystems related verticals.
• Oversee full product lifecycle from pre-silicon to production.

Skills

C/C++

Python

ARM architecture

OS drivers

GDB

WinDBG

GCC

MSVC

LLVM

ACPI

Device tree

Pre-OS Firmware

SoC architecture

Kernel

Linux/Windows

Education

BS/MS in Computer Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

GCC

MSVC

LLVM

GDB

WinDBG

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking highly motivated engineers to join the Platform Software team to design SOC drivers, firmware, BIOS, and advanced CI/CD systems. You will collaborate with OEMs and partners to deliver cutting-edge platform software across multiple verticals.

The role spans full product lifecycles from pre-silicon bring-up to production, including OS-driver verification, run-time bring-up on silicon, and post-silicon milestones. Strong ARM knowledge and C/C++ skills are essential.