We are looking for a Senior System Software Architect to help build NVIDIA Halos, our full-stack safety platform for physical AI: autonomous vehicles, humanoids, industrial robots, and intelligent machines that sense, decide, and act in the real world. This role sits at the intersection of embedded systems, rich operating systems, safety, security, virtualization, and accelerated computing. If you have a good understanding of System Software development on Real Time OS (RTOS), ARM architecture, Virtualization, strong C programming skills we want to hear from you!
As a Senior System Software Architect, you will get an opportunity to architect high-performance NVIDIA edge AI platforms running complex mixed-criticality software stacks across QNX, Linux, hypervisors, safety partitions, accelerators, and real-time AI workloads, and work alongside industry experts in diverse teams and projects.
What you'll be doing:- Architect, design, develop, and debug system software for NVIDIA Halos OS across QNX, Linux, and hypervisor-based environments.
- Design and develop BSP, boot, driver, device-management, diagnostics, and platform software for NVIDIA SoCs and edge AI platforms.
- Design & develop I/O Virtualization solutions for mixed-criticality systems
- Develop safe and secure software compliant with ISO 26262 and ISO 21434 standards.
- Bring up and optimize next-generation NVIDIA platforms, working closely with ASIC, firmware, OS, safety, security, and platform teams.
- Use Formal Methods to architect and develop high integrity software
- Use GenAI and AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate debugging, test development, code review, documentation, requirements analysis, and workflow automation.
- Design debugging, tracing, logging, and performance-analysis solutions that improve developer experience
What we need to see:- Bachelors/Masters or equivalent experience in Computer Science
- 12+ years of experience in System Software architecture and development for real time embedded systems
- Strong understanding of computer architecture and operating system fundamentals
- Experience in designing and developing solutions for complex system problems.
- Strong C and/or Ada/SPARK programming and debugging skills
- Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools for coding, debugging, testing, documentation, or workflow automation.
- Hands-on experience with debugging tools, performance analysis and system analyzer tools
- A dedicated, team and results oriented, self-motivated contributor with excellent analytical and interpersonal skills
Ways to stand out from the crowd:- In-depth knowledge of embedded systems and real time operating systems, like QNX and RT Linux skills
- Good understanding of ARM architecture and low-level software development for ARM v8 based SOCs
- Prior hands-on experience in Ada/SPARK programming (including specification and formal verification) and TLA+ formal verification modeling
- Experience performing architectural safety analysis (FMEA/DFA) and security analysis (Threat modeling)
- Experience taking features from inception to product following Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices
Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5, and 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD for Level 6.
You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
Applications for this job will be accepted at least until July 19, 2026.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
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