Senior System Software Engineer, Platform Software
Nvidia
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This role pays more than 99% of similar roles. Most pay $142,780–$204,612 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $290k versus about $174k for comparable roles.
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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
Nvidia currently has 1792 open roles on FindRole.
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The Senior System Software Integration and Debug Engineer joins the Platform Software team to manage end-to-end software integration across firmware, BSP, drivers, GPU software, and release systems. You will lead system-level debugging for boot failures, hangs, crashes, and power-transition issues while building automated failure classification systems to distinguish product defects from infrastructure problems. Key responsibilities include integrating OEM software into the stack and collaborating with architecture, silicon, and OS engineering teams to ensure cross-component stability. The role requires proficiency in C/C++, Python, and a deep understanding of ARM microarchitecture, SoC architecture, ACPI, and Device Tree concepts. You will utilize crash dumps, telemetry, and hardware diagnostics to perform root-cause analysis for complex systems involving Kernel and Hypervisor internals on both Windows and Linux platforms.
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