Senior Security Software Engineer - AV Platform
NVIDIA Corporation · Santa Clara, CA
$184,000–$356,500from the description
Jul 16, 2026
Santa Clara, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A cybersecurity-focused engineering role embedded within an autonomous vehicle platform team, responsible for integrating and developing security features across a self-driving software stack — from sensor abstraction and middleware layers to data processing pipelines. The work spans security governance and cross-team collaboration with hardware, safety, cloud, and algorithms groups. Best suited to experienced systems software engineers with a background in embedded or real-time environments and an interest in applied security.
Senior level · 8+ years · Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3 people in the Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (information security analysts). range 1–5
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $179,993 (middle half $128,832–$221,179). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role title is 'Cybersecurity Software Engineer' but the day-to-day work is heavily software engineering (C++/C/Python, embedded/middleware/platform development) with security as the domain focus. It was classified as Information Security Analysts (15-1212) given the explicit security mandate, but Software Developers (15-1252) is a strong runner-up given the depth of hands-on coding requirements.
The compensation range spans two internal levels: Level 4 ($184,000–$287,500) and Level 5 ($224,000–$356,500). The min and max reported here reflect the full combined range across both levels.
The degree requirement states 'BS or MS in CS/EE or related field (or equivalent experience)', so no formal degree is hard-gated.
Linux and QNX are listed together with 'and/or', so Linux is the primary skill with QNX as an alternative; QNX is also listed separately as a preferred/nice-to-have given the 'Ways to stand out' framing of deeper OS experience.
Source control tools are required but no specific tool is named; Git is the canonical industry-standard substitute used here.
Prior experience in Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, GPU technology, Embedded Systems, or Computer Vision appears under 'What we need to see' but is framed as 'Prior experience working in the following areas' — a broad domain familiarity list rather than a hard gate on any single item. GPU computing and Computer Vision are surfaced as preferred given the 'Ways to stand out' section reinforces them.
No work location is explicitly stated in the posting; NVIDIA's AV Platform team is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, which is used as the CBSA.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): real-time operating systems.
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