Senior Platform Software Engineer – SOC & Drivers (Equity)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking highly motivated engineers for the Platform Software team in California. You will design and triage platform drivers for SOCs, build automation tools, and support OS/driver bring-up across multiple verticals.

You will collaborate with OEM partners and drive pre-silicon to production milestones in a fast-paced environment. The role emphasizes architecture, modeling, and system-level debugging with C/C++, Python, and ARM expertise.

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of meaningful software development experience.
• Strong understanding of ARM microarchitecture and ARM exception levels.
• Background in solving problems for large complex systems deployed at scale.
• Hands-on experience with debuggers and compilers (GDB, WinDBG, GCC, MSVC, LLVM).
• Good understanding of SOC architecture spanning Boot, Security and OS.

Responsibilities

• Developing and triaging platform drivers for SOCs.
• Building automation triage tools and issue packetizations for FW and OS drivers.
• Supporting OS driver development, bring up and triaging Platform and Multimedia drivers.
• Supporting the OEM ecosystem and providing innovative solutions.
• Assist Boot KPIs, Security and OS drivers.
• Supporting many ecosystems related verticals.
• Work through devices from pre-silicon to bringup to production across verticals.
• Heavily involved in architecture definition and early modeling, simulation.
• Collaborate with teams from around the globe.

Skills

C/C++ programming

Python programming

ARM architecture

OS fundamentals

System-level debugging

Education

BS/MS in Computer Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

GDB

WinDBG

GCC

MSVC

LLVM

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking highly motivated engineers for the Platform Software team in California. You will design and triage platform drivers for SOCs, build automation tools, and support OS/driver bring-up across multiple verticals.

You will collaborate with OEM partners and drive pre-silicon to production milestones in a fast-paced environment. The role emphasizes architecture, modeling, and system-level debugging with C/C++, Python, and ARM expertise.