Principal System Software Engineer - AV Platform

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a highly motivated Principal System Software Engineer to drive next-generation innovations in automotive platform software, system architecture, and performance engineering. In this highly visible technical leadership role, you will contribute directly to the architecture, development, optimization, and scaling of foundational software technologies powering NVIDIA automotive compute platforms.

You will work closely with hardware, architecture, kernel, AI, middleware, and platform teams to deliver high-performance, scalable, and safety-critical system software solutions. This role requires deep technical expertise, substantial proven hands-on engineering experience, and the ability to solve complex system-level challenges across the software stack.

What you'll be doing:

• Drive system software architecture and technical direction for next-generation automotive compute platforms.

• Lead performance optimization initiatives across CPU, GPU, memory, storage, networking, and platform subsystems.

• Design, develop, debug, and optimize low-level system software including kernel, drivers, middleware, runtime frameworks, and platform services.

• Collaborate closely with silicon, firmware, AI, and platform architecture teams to deliver optimized end-to-end solutions.

• Analyze complex system bottlenecks and develop scalable solutions to improve performance, reliability, determinism, and efficiency.

• Drive software bring-up, profiling, debugging, and performance tuning for new automotive platforms.

• Contribute hands-on to critical software development, architecture reviews, debugging, and system optimization efforts.

• Mentor engineers and help drive a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and execution.

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