Nvidia Senior System Software Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles Platform 

United States, California 

883660946

What you will be doing:

• Developing and optimizing software architecture and frameworks for real-world performance while matching or exceeding customer requirements

• Working on areas such as component abstraction layers, inter-process data sharing and communication, and process scheduling

• Developing efficient mechanisms to maximize utilization on computers with multiple heterogeneous hardware engines

• Solidifying existing frameworks and software components, and validate with large amounts of real and synthetic data for the improvements of the computational performance and system utilization

• Performing in-vehicle tests, collecting data, and completing autonomous drive missions

• Developing unit tests, documentation for features, evaluating quality and proposing corrective actions

• Developing highly efficient product code in C++, making use of high algorithmic parallelism offered by GPGPU programming (CUDA). Follow quality and safety standards such as defined by MISRA

What we need to see:

• 4+ years of relevant industry experience

• BS/MS or higher or equivalent experience in computer engineering, computer science or related engineering disciplines

• Excellent C and C++ programming skills

• Experience developing and debuggingmultithreaded/distributedapplications like multimedia systems, game engines, etc.

• Strong knowledge of programming and debugging techniques, especially for parallel and distributed architectures

• Strong knowledge on Linux, QNX, and/or other real-time operating systems

• Experience with frameworks for robotics such as ROS and/or for multimedia such as GStreamer

• Thrive on writing low latency, highly performant code

• Great communication and analytical skills

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Understanding of embedded architectures

• Experience developing software in heterogeneous architectures, including GPUs

• Knowledge of automotive systems, notably ADAS applications

• Software development for modern OpenGL (Core Profile) and Linux

• Experience with version control systems GIT and build system like CMake/Bazel