Senior Platform Software Engineer: SOC & Driver

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Employee benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking highly motivated engineers to join the Platform Software team. You will work on SOC drivers, BSPs, and a sophisticated CI/CD system while collaborating with partners and OEM customers.

Responsibilities include developing and triaging platform drivers, supporting OS driver bring-up, and architecture work across Boot, Security and OS domains, with global teamwork. The role emphasizes hands-on debugging and system-level design.

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of meaningful software development experience.
• Strong understanding on ARM microarchitecture and ARM exception levels.
• Background in solving problems in large complex systems deployed at scale.
• Strong C/C++ and Python programming skills with independent projects.
• Good understanding of ACPI as Device tree concepts.
• Familiarity with computer system architecture, microprocessor fundamentals, and memory controllers.

Responsibilities

• Developing and triaging platform drivers for SOCs.
• Building automation triage tools and issue packetizations for FW/OS drivers.
• Supporting OS driver development, bring up and triaging Platform and Multimedia drivers.
• Supporting OEM ecosystem and providing innovative solutions.
• Assist Boot KPIs, Security and OS drivers.
• Support various ecosystems and verticals; collaborate globally.
• Contribute to architecture definition and early modeling for products.

Skills

C/C++

Python

ARM architecture

OS kernel & hypervisor

System-level debugging

GDB/WinDBG

Education

BS or MS in Computer Engineering/CS

Tools

GCC

MSVC

LLVM

GDB

WinDBG

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking highly motivated engineers to join the Platform Software team. You will work on SOC drivers, BSPs, and a sophisticated CI/CD system while collaborating with partners and OEM customers.

Responsibilities include developing and triaging platform drivers, supporting OS driver bring-up, and architecture work across Boot, Security and OS domains, with global teamwork. The role emphasizes hands-on debugging and system-level design.