Senior Platform Software Engineer, DriveAV - Autonomous Vehicles

India, Bengaluru Until 9/7/2026 8+ years exp First posted July 9, 2026 Last posted July 9, 2026
Job description

The automotive industry is at disruption & NVIDIA is at the forefront of the autonomous vehicle revolution, powering many key solutions for major car manufacturers. We are engaged in the key areas of automotive business where visual computing & AI matters: AI Cockpit and Autonomous Vehicles (AV). Autonomous vehicles need a supercomputer on wheels; it's an AI & SW heavy computational challenge. There is not an off-the-shelf platform which stands up to this challenge, so we are building our own. You have technically mastered your field, gathered several years of senior experience in cracking complex problems and now seeking a next challenge? Join our automotive teams and apply now! We are now looking for a Senior Software Engineer, based in Bangalore, India to join our Autonomous Driving Software team to contribute to customer engagements.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Support adaptation of NVIDIA AV Software platform to the customer ECU, Vehicle environment. 

  • Regularly engage with customer teams to productize workflows for platform integration

  • Analyse, debug, fix bugs in the SW platform components to deliver high quality SW releases to customers

  • Enhance integration efficiency to facilitate low latency development on Autonomous Vehicle Simulation & Car platforms

  • Contribute to platform software development, tools, filesystem customization, and software integration

What we need to see: 

  • BS or MS degree from a leading university, or equivalent experience, in an engineering or computer science related discipline with 8+ years of relevant working experience

  • Working experience with ADAS or autonomous driving software stack, particularly platform SW components, middleware & sensors

  • Proficient debugging skills from application to kernel level on embedded hardware

  • Good working knowledge of Linux and QNX and experience with device drivers

  • Excellent programming skills in C, C++ and understanding of build systems (like Bazel)

  • Good written and verbal interpersonal skills - concisely articulate knowledge and ideas

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • Experience in functional development, adaptation and testing of automotive software based on various sensors (e.g. camera, radar, lidar, GPS, ultrasound etc.)

  • Experience developing software in heterogeneous architectures, including GPUs and other types of accelerators

  • Good knowledge of process standards like ASPICE & ISO26262.

  • Self-motivated and work effectively across different international functional organizations

About this role

Summary

Develop, debug, and integrate autonomous vehicle software platforms and tools.

Job title

Senior Platform Software Engineer, DriveAV - Autonomous Vehicles

Experience level

8+ years

Minimum experience

8+ years exp

Industry

automotive

Location requirements

Based in Bengaluru, India; remote option not specified.

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

cc++linuxdevice driversbuild systems

Preferred skills

ADASautomotive softwareheterogeneous architecturesGPUISO26262

Specializations

autonomous drivingembedded softwarelinuxc++device drivers
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

India

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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