# Principal Process Architect, Automotive Software

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Process Architect to make the system of work behind its DriveOS platform coherent, practical, and scalable. The successful candidate will help a globally distributed organization turn quality, safety, cybersecurity, and AI/ML safety expectations into a coordinated, executable development model.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead the canonical DriveOS process architecture, terminology, roles and interfaces across engineering, program management, quality, functional safety, and cybersecurity.

- Develop and govern a risk-based tailoring framework that defines variant applicability, decision rights, acceptance criteria, and traceable approvals before execution begins.

- Establish process maturity, release-readiness, and quality-gate criteria that surface risk early and support predictable, first-pass acceptance.

- Translate internal lifecycle expectations and applicable industry standards into clear, verifiable workflows, templates, guidance, and mentorship for development teams.

- Partner with domain leads, program managers, assessors, and tool owners to align plans, evidence, dependencies, and handoffs across product variants.

- Convert recurring defects, assessment observations, and release takeaways into durable improvements to the common process, measurements, and training.

- Drive process automation and AI-assisted workflows where they demonstrably reduce risk, rework, or cycle time while preserving governance, traceability, and engineering judgment.

- Serve as an independent technical authority for process coherence and efficiency, raising gaps with a clear statement of product impact, accountable owner, recovery plan, and date.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in engineering, computer science, systems engineering, quality, or a related field.

- 15+ years of experience in automotive or other safety-critical product development, including process architecture, engineering quality, systems engineering, or technical program leadership.

- Deep understanding of Automotive SPICE, including how process capability, base practices, and generic practices translate into effective engineering behavior and assessable evidence.

- Strong understanding of the software and systems development lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, implementation, verification, validation, configuration, change, and release management.

- Hands-on experience with automotive functional safety, cybersecurity, and AI/ML safety requirements, including ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, and ISO 8800.

- Proven track record to build risk-based tailoring, establish quality gates, and balance compliance needs with program realities in a complex, multi-variant product environment.

- Excellent written communication, facilitation, and influence skills; able to make process requirements actionable for engineers and decision-ready for senior leaders.

- Experience using data, workflow tooling, and AI-assisted capabilities to improve engineering processes without weakening accountability or traceability.

**Benefits:**

- Equity

- Comprehensive benefits package

## Skills

### Required
- Automotive SPICE
- ISO 26262
- ISO/SAE 21434
- ISO 8800
- Software development lifecycle
- Risk-based tailoring
- Quality gates
- Process architecture
- Engineering quality
- Systems engineering
- Technical program leadership

### Nice to have
- Hardware engineering process models
- HW SPICE
- System, software, and hardware engineering in autonomous-driving programs
- Participation in relevant standards bodies or working groups
- Experience building process tooling, traceability models, measurements, or controlled AI-assisted workflows for safety- or security-critical development
- Credentials or demonstrated proficiency in Automotive SPICE, functional safety, cybersecurity, or AI/ML safety

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