Senior Systems Software Engineer, Low Latency Streaming Technology - Automotive

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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