Senior System Software Engineer - Halos Core and Robotics Platform
NVIDIA · Posted Sep 29
Graphics processing units, artificial intelligence platforms, accelerated computing, and data center solutions
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About the role
NVIDIA Halos is a full-stack safety platform for physical AI spanning autonomous vehicles, humanoids, industrial robots, and intelligent machines, running on high-performance NVIDIA edge AI platforms across QNX, Linux, hypervisors, safety partitions, and accelerators. The team works at the intersection of embedded systems, rich operating systems, safety, security, virtualization, and accelerated computing, enabling automakers, tier-1 suppliers, and research institutions to deploy AI systems for autonomous vehicles. This role designs, develops, and debugs Halos OS system software, BSP, boot, driver, and I/O virtualization solutions compliant with ISO 26262 and ISO 21434.
What you will do
- Design, develop and debug system software for NVIDIA Halos OS across QNX, Linux, and hypervisor-based environments.
- Design and develop BSP, boot, driver, device-management, diagnostics, and platform software for NVIDIA SoCs and edge AI platforms.
- Design & develop I/O Virtualization solutions for mixed-criticality systems
- Develop safe and secure software compliant with ISO 26262 and ISO 21434 standards.
- Bring up and optimize next-generation NVIDIA platforms, working closely with ASIC, firmware, OS, safety, security, and platform teams.
- Use Formal Methods to architect and develop high integrity software
- Use GenAI and AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate debugging, test development, code review, documentation, requirements analysis, and workflow automation.
- Design debugging, tracing, logging, and performance-analysis solutions that improve developer experience
- Handle complex issues requiring interactions between components partitioned across the large software stack
- Mentor junior engineers
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelors/Masters or equivalent experience in Computer Science
- 5+ years of experience in System Software architecture and development for real time embedded systems
- Strong understanding of computer architecture and operating system fundamentals
- Experience in designing and developing solutions for complex system problems.
- Strong C and/or Ada/SPARK programming and debugging skills
- Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools for coding, debugging, testing, documentation, or workflow automation.
- Hands-on experience with debugging tools, performance analysis and system analyzer tools
- A dedicated, team and results oriented, self-motivated contributor with excellent analytical and interpersonal skills
Preferred qualifications
- In-depth knowledge of embedded systems and real time operating systems, like QNX and RT Linux skills
- Good understanding of ARM architecture and low level software development for ARM v8 based SOCs
- Prior hands-on experience in Ada/SPARK programming (including specification and formal verification) and TLA+ formal verification modeling
- Experience performing architectural safety analysis (FMEA/DFA) and security analysis (Threat modeling)
- Background in software development in compliance to ISO 26262 standard
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation is a multinational technology company that designs graphics processing units (GPUs) for the gaming and professional markets, as well as system on a chip units (SoCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market. Pioneering accelerated computing, the company has become a driving engine of modern artificial intelligence, deep learning, and data center infrastructure.
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Company size
- 42000+ employees
- Founded
- April 5, 1993
- Location
- Santa Clara, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $5M raised
Leadership
Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Founder and NVIDIA Fellow
Executive Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations
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