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NVIDIA

Designs the chips and software that power AI

Senior Embedded Software Engineer - AV Platform

Full-Time
$152k - $287.5k/yr+ Equity
Senior
Bachelor's, Master's
Santa Clara, CA, USA
In Person
Software EngineeringEmbedded Engineering
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • A Bachelor of Science or Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 5 years of relevant experience working on software design and development.
  • Excellent communication and organization skills, with a logical approach to problem solving, good time management, and task prioritization.
  • Excellent C, C++, and Python programming skills.
  • Experience with embedded systems involving Linux or a real-time operating system, including exposure to bringing up and debugging ARM-based system-on-chip target hardware boards.
  • Strong debugging skills from the application level to the kernel level and comfort working across software and hardware domains.
  • Mastery of software debugging tools, including software debuggers, analyzers, and trace loggers.
Responsibilities
  • Design, develop, and bring up next-generation autonomous vehicle hardware platforms and sensors such as cameras, radars, and lidars.
  • Collaborate with software, hardware, and systems engineering teams to support the bring-up of new hardware and debug and resolve in-vehicle system issues, ensuring that NVIDIA hardware and software solutions are correctly integrated and working on autonomous development vehicles.
  • Engage regularly and directly with customer teams to customize, integrate, and productize DRIVE platforms.
  • Drive the reliability of the software platform, including radar, lidar, camera sensor processing, and fusion.
  • Analyze complex technical issues across software and hardware domains and independently drive issue analysis and resolution across multiple teams.
  • Work in an environment involving a hypervisor, Linux, and QNX real-time operating system.
Desired Qualifications
  • Prior experience with autonomous vehicles or robotic systems.
  • Familiarity with POSIX, QNX real-time operating system, and associated development and debugging tools.
  • Prior experience with CAN bus, radar, and lidar.
  • Knowledge of device drivers.

About the company

NVIDIA designs the chips and software that power artificial intelligence and sells complete data center systems to cloud providers, AI labs, and other businesses, along with GeForce graphics cards for gamers. Its GPUs, chips that perform thousands of calculations at once, became the main hardware for AI after researchers used them to train the AlexNet image-recognition model in 2012. NVIDIA connects many GPUs with its own processors and networking gear into servers and rack-sized computers, and developers program them through its CUDA software. These systems bring in most of its sales, and it also makes chips for cars and robots. Jensen Huang co-founded NVIDIA in 1993, and it is based in Santa Clara, California.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Santa Clara, California

Founded

1993

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What believers are saying

  • AI demand is still surging: data center sales rose 117% to $89 billion in the quarter ending July 2026.
  • Stock grants are worth more: shares hit a record in October 2026, up 28% for the year.
  • Engineering dominates hiring: 1,722 of NVIDIA's 2,686 job listings in October 2026 were in engineering.

What critics are saying

  • Big buyers are hedging: Meta's February 2026 agreement covers 6 gigawatts of AMD chips.
  • Financing its buyers is getting harder: lenders pushed back on NVIDIA's $500 billion chip-backed loan plan in October 2026.
  • Staff described long hours: Bloomberg's August 2024 interviews reported seven-day weeks, late nights and shouting matches.

What makes NVIDIA unique

  • Rivals must match its software too: over 7.5 million developers use CUDA and other NVIDIA tools to program its chips.
  • The CEO has a broad direct staff: Jensen Huang says over 60 people report to him, without one-on-ones.
  • People rarely leave: NVIDIA's yearly staff turnover is 3.7%, versus a 21.9% average across the tech industry.

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