Senior Machine Learning and Simulation Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles
NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
Santa Clara, CA$224k - $356.5kFull-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
Senior ML and Simulation Engineer for NVIDIA's Autonomous Vehicles (AV) Simulation team. Lead design of large-scale reinforcement learning training frameworks, develop simulation and data pipelines, and integrate state-of-the-art models for end-to-end autonomous driving within closed-loop RL and simulation environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of large-scale RL training frameworks to accelerate the development of multi-modal AV foundation models.
- Design, build, and optimize simulation and data processing pipelines to enable scalable training of driving policies.
- Focus on measuring and enhancing simulation quality and refining the reward function for RL training.
- Ensure the reliability and performance of training workflows on large GPU clusters through robust monitoring and debugging tools.
- Partner with researchers to integrate state-of-the-art model architectures into efficient and scalable training pipelines.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 12+ years of relevant professional experience encompassing large-scale ML training, AV systems, simulation, and AI infrastructure development.
- Deep proficiency in RL algorithms, such as PPO and GRPO, including practical experience with hyperparameter tuning and reward function design.
- Exceptional programming skills in C++ and Python.
- Extensive experience with large-scale GPU clusters, HPC environments, and job scheduling/orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes, SLURM).
Skills
Required:Reinforcement LearningC++PythonLarge-scale ML trainingSimulation pipelinesGPU clusters / HPC
Benefits
- equity
- benefits (see NVIDIA benefits page)
Last updated Sep 4, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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