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NVIDIA

Senior Software Engineer, World Model Systems Engineering - Autonomous Vehicles

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senior full-time Santa Clara, CA

First indexed 9 Jul 2026

Description

NVIDIA's Automotive Vehicles team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help expand its autonomous vehicle solution. You will work on productizing groundbreaking perception solutions that redefine transportation and self-driving cars. Collaborating with a worldwide team of systems engineers, AI researchers, and software engineers, you will build world-class perception, mapping, and localization solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop perception, mapping, and localization system requirements from use cases and customer requirements.
  • Analyze and define performance requirements and allocate performance budgets.
  • Plan validation and formulate test cases and critical metrics to ensure compliance with requirements.
  • Perform analysis and develop dashboards.
  • Work closely with hardware engineering, safety, developers, and product teams to ensure the right product is built.
  • Find innovative solutions to improve processes.
  • Establish relationships with relevant partners across the organization.

Requirements:

  • Master's or Ph.D. in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 8+ years of systems engineering experience on complex systems, systems analysis, data analysis, and statistical analysis.
  • Experience with verification and validation of world model stacks, data strategy definition, and failure analysis methodologies like Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and MTBF decomposition.
  • Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to drive alignment across large organizations.
  • Proficiency with SQL and Python or C++.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with autonomous vehicles and/or machine learning, computer vision.
  • Experience working with large datasets, data science, analytics.
  • Software engineering experience.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.