Senior Systems Software Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$184,000 - $287,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 15 May 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 25 August 2026.
About the role
The Senior Systems Software Engineer on the ADAS Platform team builds a modular software stack powering advanced driver-assistance systems across multiple OEMs and product lines. This position focuses on architectural abstraction, IPC, middleware, and platform abstraction layers for real-time environments.
What you'll do
- Drive architectural improvements that simplify and modularize the software stack. - Design clean boundaries between NVIDIA core components and OEM-specific implementations. - Refactor ADAS components to support reuse, extensibility, and long-term maintainability. - Improve system-level scalability through IPC, middleware, and platform abstraction layers. - Partner with teams across software, systems, and hardware to define clear interfaces and improve integration velocity. - Profile and tune system performance, optimizing for multi-core and real-time environments.
What you'll need
- BS or MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience). - 8+ years of professional software development experience. - Solid background in C and C++ programming. - Strong understanding of modular software architecture, clean code design, and separation of concerns. - Hands-on experience building and debugging multithreaded, real-time, or performance-critical systems. - Familiarity with parallel/distributed systems and low-level system profiling. - Experience working in Linux, QNX, or other embedded RTOS environments.
Skills: software stack, ADAS components, platform abstraction layers, multithreaded, real-time systems
This role has been open 200 days — well above the 65-day median for Systems Software Engineering roles.
Systems Software Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
680
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Median days open
65 d
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Median salary
$209k
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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 (680 roles · 71 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 132 | 680 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 981 | 6250 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 43 d | 65 d (−22 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $209k |
Skills observed across this category: software stack, ADAS components, platform abstraction layers, multithreaded, real-time systems
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 176 open roles · median 82 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 134 open roles · median 44 d
- AMD · 58 open roles · median 53 d
- Mobileye · 23 open roles · median 88 d
- Arm Holdings · 20 open roles · median 122 d
- Broadcom · 19 open roles · median 61 d
How we counted: 680 open Systems Software Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 71 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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