Senior System Software Engineer - Embedded Controller - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$152,000 - $287,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 22 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves improving GPU system software, specifically focusing on firmware, a real-time operating system, and driver interfaces.
What you'll do
- Improve products and the process used to build, test, and run them.
- Design and implement firmware and real-time operating system changes, and driver interfaces.
- Use current development tools, including code generation and checking tools, to develop and validate software.
- Work with hardware and software partners to resolve issues and deliver results.
What you'll need
- Experience in system software or embedded software.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 5+ years of meaningful experience.
- Experience writing software in C, and scripting to build, test, or run software.
- Background with embedded software, a real-time operating system, device drivers, and low-level interfaces such as interrupts, GPIO, DMA, PCIe, or I2C.
- Experience delivering software from design through release and support.
Skills: firmware, real-time operating system, driver interfaces, embedded software, low-level interfaces
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 58-day median for Embedded Firmware Engineering roles.
Embedded Firmware Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
719
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Median days open
58 d
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Median salary
$172k
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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 (719 roles · 75 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 60 | 719 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 1001 | 5948 · 143 employers |
| Median days open | 47 d | 58 d (−11 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $172k |
Skills observed across this category: firmware, real-time operating system, driver interfaces, embedded software, low-level interfaces
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 128 open roles · median 55 d
- Micron Technology · 62 open roles · median 70 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 56 open roles · median 47 d
- AMD · 52 open roles · median 22 d
- Lattice Semiconductor · 43 open roles · median 14 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 30 open roles · median 63 d
How we counted: 719 open Embedded Firmware Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 75 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 23 Sept 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.