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Senior Sensor Fusion Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA, Redmond, WA, Hybrid (Remote), Seattle, WA$184k - $287.5k + equityFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior role in DRIVE Road structure / Online mapping / Context Fusion to create a complete 3D world model by fusing map signals with perception, enabling AV navigation across diverse geographies and conditions. Collaboration with perception and planning teams; mentorship and technical leadership within the team.

Responsibilities

  • Develop core functionality for autonomous driving in all geographies based on the fusion of SOTA perception DNN and map signals.
  • Generate real-time 3D world model utilized by planning, incorporating inputs from sensors and external sources.
  • Enable HD mapless driving in complex urban scenarios by creating enriched BEV models of the world.
  • Enable L3 level autonomy in highway scenarios by creating accurate, reliable and safe models of the world from camera, lidar, radar perception and map signals
  • Build fused static obstacles and occupancy grids and build occlusion masks to enrich AV scenarios.
  • Be a technology leader by providing the team guidance on approaches to solve the hardest AV problems; hands-on collaboration.
  • Mentor strong engineers within the team.
  • Ensure algorithms work well on large amounts of real and synthetic data across diverse environments and conditions.
  • Produce code and designs following automotive quality and safety standards.

Qualifications

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related fields or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of experience, with at least 2+ years in the AV or robotics industry
  • 2+ years of experience technically leading areas
  • Passion for robotics and autonomous vehicles
  • Drive to learn new things and tackle meaningful problems
  • Outstanding communication and cross-team collaboration especially with multinational teams across the globe
  • Independent and analytical software engineering skills
  • Software development experience on embedded or automotive platforms.

Skills

Required:3D world model generationSensor fusionBEV models
Nice to have:HD mapless drivingLocalization / mapping / Kalman filters

Benefits

  • equity and benefits
Last updated Sep 11, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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