Senior Systems Software Engineer, Low Latency Streaming Technology - Automotive

NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Systems Software Engineer, Low Latency Streaming Technology - Automotive in Santa Clara, United States. It pays $184k-$288k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on NVIDIA.

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AI in this role

Our team builds the technology powering this behind ultra-low-latency, interactive cloud streaming GeForce NOW — delivering a bare-metal gaming experience to a diverse range of client devices. We're now extending this low-latency streaming foundation into the automotive domain, where the bar isn't just performance — it's safety as well.

We are seeking a Senior Systems Software Engineer with deep knowledge of RTOS and software safety standards to help bring GFN's real-time streaming technology to automotive platforms. You'll work at the intersection of real-time media streaming and safety-critical software development, adapting and hardening our streaming pipelines to meet the reliability, determinism, and certification demands of in-vehicle systems. If you're excited by the challenge of reimagining low-latency interactive streaming for an exacting environment, this team is the place to be. NVIDIA's GeForce NOW, the next-generation gaming service powered by NVIDIA GPUs in the cloud, transforms a Mac, any PC or just a mobile device into a high-performance gaming rig. GeForce NOW automatically keeps games up-to-date and users around the globe can instantly stream the latest games in high-definition resolution at the lowest latency for smooth gameplay. Just click and play! Visit us at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now.

What You Will Be Doing:

Extend and adapt GFN's low-latency streaming stack to RTOS platforms (e.g., QNX, AUTOSAR Adaptive/Classic) to meet strict determinism, timing, and partitioning requirements
Develop QM-classified streaming software with freedom-from-interference awareness, ensuring architectural isolation from ASIL-rated components per ISO 26262 standard
Collaborate with functional safety teams to ensure streaming components meet freedom-from-interference and resource-partitioning requirements relative to colocated safety-critical systems
Build and evolve test infrastructure and tools to validate real-time performance and fault-tolerance behavior for automotive streaming scenarios
Define and monitor performance/safety metrics and drive continuous product improvement
Review code and design across the team, and help evolve team engineering and safety processes

What We Need to See:

Proficiency in C/C++, with strong systems software programming and open-box debugging skills
Hands-on experience with development, debugging, and performance tuning of real-time, latency-sensitive software in QNX or other RTOS environments for automotive or a similar safety-critical domain
Solid understanding of ISO 26262 classification concepts (QM vs. ASIL) and freedom-from-interference/partitioning principles
Experience with real-time video/audio pipelines including encoding, decoding, network protocols (RTP/ RTCP/ SRTP), and QoS algorithms (Adaptive streaming, FEC, L4S, ECN)
Understanding of deterministic, thread-safe and memory-safe coding practices
BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of experience in above areas

Ways to Stand Out From the Crowd:

Experience with automotive SoCs, hypervisors
Background in interactive, latency-sensitive streaming applications such as gaming, video conferencing, cloud streaming
Exposure to automotive cybersecurity standards (ISO 21434) alongside functional safety
Background with automotive connectivity: TCU integration, cellular (LTE/5G) link behavior, link bonding or failover, and designing around variable and lossy last-mile networks
Experience employing agentic tools for code and documentation

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Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary ranges for this position are:
184,000 USD – 287,500 USD for Level 4; and 224,000 USD – 356,500 USD for Level 5.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 3, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

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How we rate this

Senior Systems Software Engineer, Low Latency Streaming Technology - Automotive at NVIDIA rates 25 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Key facts

Senior Systems Software Engineer, Low Latency Streaming Technology - Automotive is an open job at NVIDIA.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The listed salary is $184k-$288k a year.
The role is based in US, CA, Santa Clara.
The job was posted on August 27, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by NVIDIA. Apply on NVIDIA