Nvidia System Software Architect Programmable Vision Accelerator 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

279424595

You will be architecting and developing new features and improvements to realize the groundbreaking potential of NVIDIA mobile systems, ranging from self-driving cars, intelligent video analytics and autonomous mobile robotics. You will need to demonstrate excellent technical leadership, communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills as well as a real passion for performance-oriented software engineering. If this sounds like a fun challenge, we want to hear from you!

What you will be doing:

• Evolve and define software architecture for future NVIDIA's Programmable Vision Accelerator (PVA) chips and enhance the functionality of currently shipping products.

• Design and write custom embedded software for PVA engine to meet product and hardware requirements at the SoC level.

• Help defining forward-looking strategy and improvements to the PVA algorithms and system architecture.

• Review hardware specifications and map algorithms to the architecture.

• Participate in the bring-up of the new generation of the world's most advanced SoC.

• Collaborate closely with other teams and software/hardware architects across NVIDIA to support the architecture, design, creation, integration, and validation of PVA software under a common SoC umbrella.

• Provide technical support and guidance for internal and external customers.

• Mentor and guide technical development of the less experienced team members

What we need to see:

• College degree (preferably PhD or MS) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience

• 10+ years of working experience in embedded industry, including 5+ years in technical leadership role

• Deep understanding of SoC principles, general systems architectures, operating systems, device drivers, memory management, multithreading, and real-time scheduling.

• Deep understanding and working experience with embedded technologies including DSP, computer vision and image/signal processing.

• Excellent software development skills (C, C++) and outstanding problem-solving capabilities.

• Proven expertise in architecting embedded software and development of highly optimized code for DSP, SIMD and/or VLIW processors

• Experience with embedded Linux and/or QNX.

• Outstanding interpersonal skills with ability to work in a global and diverse team operating in a fast-paced environment.

• Good understanding of safety-critical software principles with experience in automotive or other highly regulated industries

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience with ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 or equivalent quality/safety processes.

• Understanding of software safety and safety development processes is a major plus.

• Consistent record to effectively guide and influence in a technically strong dynamic environment.