Senior Systems Software Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

About the role

This is a visible role that offers an opportunity to closely work with outstanding engineers across different facets of the core platform and AV functions that powers NVIDIA's system software stack behind autonomous vehicles.

Responsibilities

• Participate and lead engineering collaborations with internal/external engineering leads to drive system bring ups of sophisticated vehicle hardware/software stacks
• Lead the way to productize these components all the way into fleet scale production by crafting and advocating measurable engineering metrics
• Dig into innovative hardware/software components to debug complex problems across sensors (such as Cameras, Radars, Lidars etc.), network, perception and core underlying OS
• Conceptualize, architect and productize software tools that stem out of root cause analysis of system and operational components; both vehicle specific and fleet wide
• Demonstrate strong system software experience is a fundamental requirement. Experience with Operating System, GPU, Sensor technologies towards image processing, computer vision, and multimedia are valued
• Familiarity with automobile technologies, HIL, SIL is very desirable

Requirements

• BS or MS degree in EE/CS or closely related field (or equivalent experience)
• 5+ years of experience in the relevant field
• Excellent programming skills in C++, C and Python along with source control tools like Git, Perforce, etc.
• Knowledge about system programming, threading, mutex, synchronization, communication, and parallel computing to build highly scalable and efficient applications
• Strong debugging abilities in highly pipelined software stacks
• Engineering leadership skills across cross matrixed organizations

Qualifications

• Experience in Automotive Vehicle and/or Robotic System fleet management systems
• Demonstrated past experience in software integration across sophisticated software stacks and drive to productization
• Knowledge on Linux, QNX, Android, and/or other real-time operating systems
• Thriving on writing low latency, highly performant code
• Understanding of system architectures and a flair for performance and stability improvements across CPU/GPU/Memory/Storage

Skills

• System Software Engineer

Benefits

• Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.
• The base salary range is 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3, and 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4.
• You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Pay

• Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.
• The base salary range is 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3, and 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4.

Schedule

• Full time