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# Senior Systems Software Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles Platform

- **Company:** NVIDIA Ltd.
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $184,000.0 - $287,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, AUTomotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR), Software Debugging, Linux, Programming Tools, Device Drivers, Memory Management, Real-Time Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, Systems Integration, Multithreading, Scripting, Real Time Systems, Software Coding, Lidar
- **Published:** October 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-systems-software-engineer-autonomous-vehicles-platform-santa-clara-ca--b7bf7b01-d3ec-4bff-b601-6d768d62e709

## About the Role

Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Autonomous Driving Systems, Time Management, System Integration (SI), Cross-Functional, Embedded Systems, Realtime Operating System, Performance Metrics, * BS, MS in CS/CE/EE, or equivalent experience

 * 8+ years in a related field
 * Must have detailed experience with Classic Autosar Software Stack and associated development tools
 * Excellent C and C++ coding skills along with proficiency in Scripting languages
 * Master of software debugging tools: software debuggers, analyzers, trace loggers
 * Deep understanding of SoC principles, general systems architectures, operating systems, device drivers, memory management, multithreading, and real-time scheduling
 * Excellent communication and organization skills, with a logical approach to problem solving, good time management and task prioritization

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

 * Prior experience in Automotive field and usage of AUTOSAR Stack
 * Background with Real time embedded environments, RTOS and tools
 * Prior experience working with CAN and tools, RADAR, LiDAR is a plus
 * Experience with onsite and offsite customer support

## Description

Our Autonomous Vehicles Platform team is searching for engineers to develop and bring NVIDIA's automotive platform out to the world. You will participate in a focused effort to develop and productize ground-breaking solutions that will revolutionize the world of transportation and the growing field of self-driving cars. You will work with hardworking and dedicated multi-functional engineering development teams across various vehicle subsystems to integrate their work into our autonomous driving DRIVE SW platform, while achieving or exceeding all meaningful NVIDIA and automotive standards & guidelines. You'll find the work is exciting, fun, and very meaningful. We have deadlines, customers, and competition.

What you'll be doing:

 * Develop embedded real time system software responsible providing safety services for Advance Driver Assistance System
 * Optimize solution to meet all product, safety and system level requirements and satisfy key performance indicators
 * Adhere to development rigor that insures achieving the overall product safety goals and develop supporting work-products that align with functional safety process
 * Collaborate with software, hardware, and integration teams to derive and drive system level architecture and requirements
 * Regularly engage with customer teams directly to customize, integrate, and productize
 * Analyze sophisticated technical issues and independently drive resolution across multiple teams
 * Work in an environment which involves RTOS, Classic AUTOSAR, QNX/Linux OS, Real time embedded environment