Principal Systems Software Engineer

Nvidia

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Work type: On-site
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Salary: $272,000–$431,250 / yr
Posted: 3 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $352k

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About Nvidia

Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing

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TL;DR · Principal Systems Software Engineer

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NVIDIA’s LPX System Software team seeks a Principal Software Engineer to set technical direction for foundational software components such as hardware abstraction layers, core system libraries, drivers, and runtime interfaces. This role involves designing and implementing complex data movement pipelines and addressing challenging reliability issues through detailed root-cause analysis. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Rust for low-level work, including shipping production systems at the hardware boundary, and a proven track record of leading triage efforts on difficult system failures. Additionally, proficiency in large codebases, distributed systems, and AI coding agents is essential. This position requires deep expertise in firmware, boot flows, RTOS, BMCs/MCUs, and Linux driver development, with an emphasis on building scalable Rust-based solutions for real-time AI inference platforms at the scale of a hyperscaler or Rust-native hardware company.

Skills

Rust Linux gRPC RISC-V Kubernetes CI/CD PostgreSQL Prometheus Docker Terraform AWS GitLab GraphQL Python MPL许可证项目 LLM VFIO

What you'll do

Shape architecture of hardware abstraction layers and core system libraries.
Design and implement drivers, runtimes, and data movement pipelines for novel silicon.
Build runtime interfaces for launching and managing workloads at production scale.
Drive triage of complex reliability issues and produce root cause analyses.
Lead new platform bring-up and NPI in partnership with hardware engineering teams.
Establish agent-assisted engineering practices to improve team efficiency and stability.

What we're looking for

MS in CS, CE, EE, or related STEM field, or equivalent experience with 12+ years of production system software development.
Deep expertise in systems programming with Rust as primary language for low-level work.
Proven ability to design and evolve long-term supported libraries and APIs with ABI discipline.
Fluency in large multi-repository codebases with complex dependencies.
Demonstrated leadership in triaging difficult reliability issues and producing root cause analyses.
Extensive experience in low-level platform development, including firmware, boot flows, RTOS, BMCs/MCUs, RISC-V.
Strong background in hardware bring-up, system triage, fault analysis, diagnostics, and validation.

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