Senior System Software Engineer - Edge AI, RTOS, Equity

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 356,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

NVIDIA seeks a Senior System Software Engineer to advance Halos, our full-stack safety platform for autonomous machines. You will work on embedded OS, virtualization, and real-time workloads across QNX, Linux, and hypervisors, shaping safety and performance on edge AI platforms.

Join a diverse team and contribute to architecture, debugging, and formal methods while delivering robust, secure software for next-generation vehicles and robots. Competitive compensation and equity await.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 8+ years of experience in System Software architecture and real-time embedded systems.
• Strong understanding of computer architecture and OS fundamentals.
• Strong C and/or Ada/SPARK programming and debugging skills.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools for coding, debugging, testing, or workflow automation.
• Hands-on experience with debugging tools and performance analysis.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, develop, and debug system software for Halos OS across QNX, Linux, and hypervisor environments.
• Design and develop BSP and I/O virtualization solutions, boot, driver, diagnostics, and platform software for mixed-criticality systems on NVIDIA SoCs and edge AI platforms.
• Develop safe and secure software aligned with ISO 26262 and ISO 21434 standards by maximizing the use of Formal Methods.
• Bring up and optimize next-generation NVIDIA platforms, working with ASIC, firmware, OS, safety, security, and platform teams.
• Use GenAI and AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate debugging, test development, code review, documentation, requirements analysis, and workflow automation.
• Design debugging, tracing, logging, and performance-analysis solutions that improve developer experience.

Skills

C programming

Ada/SPARK

RTOS

System software architecture

Debugging tools

Performance analysis

ARM architecture

AI-assisted development tools

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science

Tools

QNX

Linux

Hypervisors

Job description

NVIDIA seeks a Senior System Software Engineer to advance Halos, our full-stack safety platform for autonomous machines. You will work on embedded OS, virtualization, and real-time workloads across QNX, Linux, and hypervisors, shaping safety and performance on edge AI platforms.

Join a diverse team and contribute to architecture, debugging, and formal methods while delivering robust, secure software for next-generation vehicles and robots. Competitive compensation and equity await.