Senior System Software Engineer - Autonomous Vehicle

NVIDIA; United States; On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity and benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA DriveWorks SDK team is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to design, implement, and optimize a scalable software stack for autonomous vehicles. You will work on sensor drivers, data streaming, and vehicle interfaces, delivering low-latency code and robust multi-threaded architectures.

You will collaborate with suppliers, car teams, and control teams to enable self-driving features, perform in-vehicle tests, collect data, and contribute to MISRA-compliant quality standards.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Excellent C and C++ programming skills.
• 8+ years of proven experience developing and debugging multithreaded/distributed applications like multimedia systems, game engines, etc.
• Strong knowledge of programming and debugging techniques, especially for parallel and distributed architectures.
• Background on Linux, Android, and/or other real-time operating systems.
• Experience with sensors such as cameras, LiDAR, radar, ultrasonics, IMU, GPS
• Experience with vehicle control interfaces.
• Thrive on writing low latency, highly performant code.
• Great communication and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Create and optimize software architecture and frameworks for real-world performance while matching or exceeding customer requirements.
• Working with vendors developing innovative sensors for vehicles.
• Developing sensor drivers, plug-ins, and processing functions around sensor data.
• Create highly efficient sensor data recording, playback and visualization tools.
• Performing in-vehicle tests, collecting data and analyzing integrity.
• Working with our car teams and control teams to develop interfaces to the vehicles to enable self-driving.
• Supporting data collection campaigns for our autonomous vehicle program.
• Developing unit tests, documentation for features, evaluating quality and proposing corrective actions.
• Creating highly efficient product code in C++, making use of high algorithmic parallelism offered by GPGPU programming (CUDA), and following quality and safety standards such as defined by MISRA.

Skills

C/C++ programming

Multithreaded programming

Linux/RTOS

Communication & analysis

Education

BS/MS in Computer Engineering/Computer Science

Tools

Git

CMake

CUDA

OpenCL

Job description

NVIDIA DriveWorks SDK team is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to design, implement, and optimize a scalable software stack for autonomous vehicles. You will work on sensor drivers, data streaming, and vehicle interfaces, delivering low-latency code and robust multi-threaded architectures.

You will collaborate with suppliers, car teams, and control teams to enable self-driving features, perform in-vehicle tests, collect data, and contribute to MISRA-compliant quality standards.