Senior Embedded Software Engineer - AV Platform - CA, Santa Clara, United States
Originally posted 29 August 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 30 August 2026.
About the role
As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer on the Autonomous Vehicles Platform Team, you will develop and bring NVIDIA's automotive platform to autonomous development vehicles. The role centers on integrating vehicle subsystems and sensor processing into the autonomous driving DRIVE SW platform across Hypervisor, Linux, and QNX RTOS environments.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and bring up autonomous vehicle hardware platforms and sensors including cameras, radars, and lidars. - Collaborate with software, hardware, and systems engineering teams to support bring-up of new hardware, debug, and resolve in-vehicle system issues. - Regularly engage with customer teams directly to customize, integrate, and productize DRIVE platforms. - Drive the reliability of the software platform across RADAR, LiDAR, and Camera sensor processing and fusion. - Analyze complex technical issues across software and hardware domains and independently drive issue analysis and resolution. - Work in an environment involving Hypervisor, Linux, and QNX RTOS.
What you'll need
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or relevant field (or equivalent experience). - 5+ years of relevant experience working on software design and development. - C, C++, and Python programming skills. - Experience with embedded systems involving Linux/RTOS with exposure to bring-up and debugging of ARM-based SoC target hardware boards. - Debugging skills from application to kernel level across software and hardware domains using software debuggers, analyzers, and trace loggers. - Device driver knowledge.
Nice to have
- Prior experience with Autonomous Vehicles or Robotic systems. - Familiarity with POSIX, QNX RTOS, and associated development and debugging tools. - Prior experience working with CAN bus, Radar, and Lidar.
Skills: firmware, automotive platform, hardware platforms, sensors, autonomous driving DRIVE SW platform, in-vehicle system issues
This role has been open 191 days — well above the 55-day median for Embedded Firmware Engineering roles.
Embedded Firmware Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
764
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Median days open
55 d
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Median salary
$169k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (764 roles · 84 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 58 | 764 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 981 | 6250 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 56 d | 55 d (+1 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $169k |
Skills observed across this category: firmware, automotive platform, hardware platforms, sensors, autonomous driving DRIVE SW platform, in-vehicle system issues
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 126 open roles · median 54 d
- Micron Technology · 65 open roles · median 88 d
- AMD · 63 open roles · median 40 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 60 open roles · median 58 d
- Lattice Semiconductor · 45 open roles · median 45 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 36 open roles · median 32 d
How we counted: 764 open Embedded Firmware Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 84 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 25 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.
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