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Senior Software Engineer, World Model Systems Engineering - Autonomous Vehicles

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$184k - $287.5kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Systems Engineer position focused on perception, mapping and localization for NVIDIA's autonomous vehicle solutions. collaborator with global teams to productize world model stacks while meeting automotive standards.

Responsibilities

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

Qualifications

  • MS, or PhD in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Data Science or another related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 8+ years systems engineering experience on complex systems, systems analysis (e.g. error budget creation, modeling of scenarios), data analysis, and statistical analysis
  • Experience with verification and validation of world model stacks
  • Experience with VLMs, LLMs and agentic workflows for purposes of automated triage
  • Data strategy definition
  • Understanding of failure analysis methodologies such as 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++

Skills

Required:SQLPython or C++Systems engineering

Benefits

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

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