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Senior Software Engineer, L4 - Autonomous Vehicles

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

About the role

Senior software engineer role focused on building next-generation autonomous driving architecture, integrating classical safety stacks with large-scale AI systems for self-driving vehicles.

Responsibilities

  • Compose and build the architecture behind next-generation self-driving vehicle technology
  • Work on Prediction, Decision, Planning and Control architecture
  • Have exposure to Classical safety stack
  • Build robust system-level safety and fallback strategies
  • Work on End-to-end data-driven AV pipelines
  • Hands on experience in DVLA / VA driving models
  • Develop a World Model–based planning and reasoning model
  • Exposure to engaging with Large-scale model inference architecture
  • Contribute to the integration of innovative research in robotics into self-driving vehicle technologies
  • Deep knowledge of E2E AV software integration from perception through control, including dependencies, interface management, and performance tuning.

Qualifications

  • PhD with 4+ years, MS with 6+ years, or BS (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
  • Production experience in autonomous driving systems
  • Worked on AI foundation models or large-scale ML systems
  • Helped drive End-to-end driving models
  • Experience working on Robotics or embodied AI systems
  • Knowledge and experience in System architecture from 0 → 1 → scale.

Skills

Required:PhD/MS/BS with relevant experienceProduction autonomous driving systemsAI foundation models / large-scale ML systemsEnd-to-end driving modelsRobotics or embodied AI systemsSystem architecture from 0→1→scale
Nice to have:CUDA knowledge

Benefits

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

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