senior software engineering Embedded Software Engineer ic · Posted May 18, 2026

About this role

Nvidia is hiring a senior-level Embedded Software Engineer in the software engineering function based in Santa Clara, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, C, Deep Learning, System Design.

Role
Embedded Software Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Posted
May 18, 2026

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Job description

from Nvidia careers

NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 fueled the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern deep learning — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, we are increasingly known as “the AI computing company.” We're looking to grow our company and establish teams with the most thoughtful people in the world. Are you ready to change the next generation of computing? Join us at the forefront of technological advancement.

What you'll be doing:

  • As a member of the Datacenter Firmware Team you will design and develop firmware for NVIDIA's ARM based CPUs.

  • Using strong communication skills, develop software, drive ideas, analyze documents and communications to internal and/or external audiences about our technology.

  • Collaborate with hardware architecture teams. Identify opportunities to improve our architecture and make it more performant generation to generation.

What we need to see:

  • BS or MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree (or equivalent experience) with 5+ yrs of proven experience.

  • Strong understanding of Multicore hardware, operating systems design, concurrency, virtual memory, caching, interrupts, device drivers and real-time programming.

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