# Solutions Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3, and 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join NVIDIA's Solutions Engineering team, which is reshaping the future of driving by building and deploying scalable solutions for autonomous vehicles, creating safer and more efficient roads.

You will help craft the application software architecture by working closely with external partners and internal teams within NVIDIA, focusing on autonomous vehicles. You will advance and refine the overall drivability of the solution, addressing integration challenges and using analytical skills to find effective solutions.

**Responsibilities:**

- Shape the application architecture, focusing on perception and sensor fusion, collaborating with architecture and software development teams.

- Integrate and adapt NVIDIA solutions in target vehicles, ensuring perception and sensor fusion meet desired driving performance and functionality.

- Lead bring-up activities and provide technical support to resolve functional and perception-related issues.

- Perform in-vehicle and simulation test drives for functional and performance analysis.

- Work with partners to integrate hardware and software components, understand system architecture, profile performance, identify bottlenecks, and drive optimization.

- Collaborate with global engineering teams to deploy solutions to customers.

**Requirements:**

- 5+ years of experience in software development related to deep learning and/or autonomous driving technologies.

- Experience developing and deploying deep learning-based perception solutions across diverse sensor modalities.

- Familiarity with data flywheel for scaling deep learning-based perception solutions.

- Solid grasp of sensor processing pipelines and their lifecycle.

- BS/MS in computer science, robotics, electrical engineering, or related technical field.

- Excellent C/C++ development skills with good knowledge of Python.

- Ability to adapt to fast-paced development lifecycles and multi-functional organizations.

- Strong analytical skills, striving for innovative solutions, with outstanding attention to detail.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience with automotive design processes and standards (e.g., ISO 26262 FuSa, ISO 21448 SOTIF, ASPICE).

- Familiarity with NVIDIA DRIVE platform and NVIDIA GPU hardware and CUDA programming.

- Software development experience on QNX or equivalent RTOS.

- Contributions to or ownership of open-source projects and mentorship experience.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3, and 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- C/C++
- Python
- deep learning
- autonomous driving
- sensor processing pipelines

### Nice to have
- automotive design processes
- NVIDIA DRIVE platform
- CUDA programming
- QNX or equivalent RTOS
- open-source projects

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