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Based on 240 similar postings.
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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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Senior Software Engineer - Embedded Platform joins the Embedded Platform team to accelerate software system development for Jetson, IGX, and DGX Spark products. This role involves implementing features for robotics, drones, and industrial automation platforms from board bring-up through production release. Key responsibilities include defining, building, and tuning real-time Linux Kernels for deterministic workloads based on GPU and SoC dependent accelerators. The candidate will enable various IOs, validate sensor interfaces, and work with hardware, safety, and middleware teams to turn customer use cases into platform features. Required expertise includes Linux kernel internals, device drivers, device trees, boot flows, and debugging with tracing tools. Experience with ARM architectures, FreeRTOS, Zephyr, and ROS2 middleware behavior is also relevant for modeling various GPU and accelerator engine workloads.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214500 from 1116 postings across 75 companies.
C
C++
Bash
Linux Kernel
RTOS
Embedded Systems
Board Support Package (BSP)
ARM
Firmware
Device Drivers
SoC
Hardware Bring-up
Oscilloscope
Logic Analyzer
System-on-Module
Jetson
IGX
DGX Spark
C
C++
Rust
Linux
SELinux
ARMv8
Device Drivers
Serial Communication
Computer Networking
Concurrent Programming
IDE
Version Control
Scripting
Software Design
Debugging
C++
Python
Embedded Linux
Bash
POSIX threads
FPGA
Ethernet
Version Control
Middleware
Device Drivers
Hardware-in-the-loop
Virtualization
Linux Kernel
Real-time Scheduling
data-acquisition