System Software Engineer - Trusted Firmware

Description

The company has been working in computer graphics, PC gaming and accelerated computing for over 25 years, and is now applying AI to shape the next phase of computing, where its GPUs serve as the core processing unit for computers, robots and self-driving cars.

This is a Tegra System Software Engineer role based in Santa Clara, CA, USA, on a team that builds systems and solutions for areas ranging from AI to self-driving cars.

The posting is for an existing vacancy.

Responsibilities

• Design, write and develop system software for ARM's Trusted Firmware Stack.
• Work across firmware and system software interfaces, including early boot, EL3 runtime services, power management, operating systems and hypervisors.
• Contribute to the design of next-generation CPU architecture used in the Tegra platform.
• Work with the upstream community on software for recent ARM technologies such as Confidential Compute, and help improve specifications such as PSCI, FFA and RMI.
• Take part in architecture explorations, including feasibility studies, safety evaluations and CPU performance analysis.
• Build and improve agentic workflows for trusted firmware engineering, covering codebase exploration, change planning, implementation support, bring-up, debugging, test execution and documentation.
• Create reusable workflow components, tools or skills that connect AI assistants to approved engineering context, such as source repositories, technical documentation, issue trackers, build environments and test infrastructure.
• Define clear validation and review steps for AI-assisted work, and assess generated changes and results for correctness, security, reliability and maintainability before integration.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of proven experience in system software development.
• Strong software engineering skills in C or C++, and the ability to debug low-level software.
• Experience developing or integrating firmware, embedded software, kernel-level software or other hardware-adjacent system software.
• Deep understanding of operating system fundamentals and computer architecture concepts such as MMU, cache coherency, TLB, timers and ISRs is required.
• Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development tools for tasks such as firmware debugging, regression triage, log analysis, test generation and technical research.
• Preferred: knowledge of safety and security standards such as ISO26262, CERT-C and MISRA-C.
• Preferred: experience building AI agents or engineering assistants using retrieval-augmented generation, tool use or function calling, agent skills or multi-step orchestration.

Conditions

Based in Santa Clara, CA, USA.

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

The company uses AI tools in its recruiting process.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package covering you and your family, with details available on the company benefits site.