Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Agentic Development for Safety-Critical Systems

• Lead a high-impact core team building the future safety-ready agentic workflow for complex C/C++/Rust systems software and drivers.
• Define the architecture and technical strategy for taking clear specifications through design, implementation, integration, testing, debugging, validation, review, and release.
• Build agents and workflows that perform real systems-development work, including feature implementation, defect diagnosis and repair, regression analysis, refactoring, test development, performance optimization, and compatibility analysis.
• Develop the harnesses, skills, tools, evaluations, deterministic validators, observability, and feedback loops that make agentic development dependable and continuously improving.
• Create an engineering culture that combines ambitious invention with intellectual honesty, technical depth, measurable evidence, and an uncompromising quality bar.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ overall years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Proven track record of managing and delivering large-scale, complex software projects
• Strong understanding of safety-critical system development and relevant industry standards (such as ISO 26262, DO-178C).
• Outstanding problem-solving abilities and the capacity to perform well under pressure.
• Effective communication and partnership skills, enabling productive work with different teams.

• Experience leading development of graphics, display, camera, multimedia, networking, storage, kernel, or other production driver software.
• Experience building developer platforms, autonomous engineering systems, or multi-agent infrastructure adopted across multiple production software teams.
• Significant contributions to agentic systems, systems software, developer tools, safety/security engineering, or open-source ecosystems.
• Experience with NVIDIA DRIVE OS, QNX, automotive software, ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, formal verification, or safety- and cybersecurity-evidence pipelines.
• Strong understanding of the engineering realities of driver software, including concurrency, memory safety, ABI and platform boundaries, hardware/firmware interaction, debugging on target, performance, compatibility, CI, and release engineering.

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package ( www.nvidiabenefits.com ), we are widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us and, due to outstanding growth, our best-in-class engineering teams are rapidly growing. If you're a creative and autonomous engineer with a real passion for technology, we want to hear from you!

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits .

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 17, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.