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Senior Software Engineer, Mapping - Autonomous Vehicles

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA; Seattle, WA$152k - $241.5kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior software engineer role on the NVIDIA DRIVE Mapping team focused on map-based driving products for autonomous vehicles, including in-vehicle software, data fusion, and map-building workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop algorithms for map-based driving products
  • Architecture design for map provider, health monitors and data fusion with perception
  • Develop highly efficient in-vehicle code in C++14 or later
  • Design and integrate algorithmic solutions into the core of NVIDIA AV
  • Research, and develop transformer based models tailored for graphs
  • Implement evaluation frameworks to measure performance of large scale LLM’s
  • Analyze and fine-tune SOTA pretrained models on domain specific datasets
  • Build automated map content analysis in Python, JavaScript or TypeScript
  • Create scalable and distributed map-building workflows

Qualifications

  • 4+ years with BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • Background in computer vision, 3D geometry and machine learning
  • Heavy AI user for day‑to‑day development (design, coding, review, and testing)
  • Hands‑on experience with tools like Claude CLI, Cursor, and other advanced code assistants
  • Strong prompt‑crafting skills: knows how to break problems down, provide context, and iterate with AI to reach robust solutions
  • Passion for robotics and autonomous vehicles

Skills

Required:Map-based driving algorithmsC++AI/ML for graphsPython/JS/TSDistributed systems

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits (see NVIDIA benefits)
Last updated Sep 4, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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