Senior Software Engineer, L4 - Autonomous Vehicles
NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
ShanghaiFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Senior software engineer focused on next-generation autonomous vehicle architecture, integrating classical safety stacks with AI-driven systems for self-driving cars. Roles span prediction, decision, planning, control, and end-to-end data-driven AV pipelines, with exposure to DVLA/VA driving models, world-model planning, and large-scale model inference.
Responsibilities
- Compose and build the architecture behind next-generation self-driving vehicle technology
- Work on Prediction, Decision, Planning and Control architecture
- 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 engage with Large-scale model inference architecture
- Contribute to the integration of innovative research in robotics into our 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 in relevant fieldProduction autonomous driving experienceAI foundation models / large-scale MLEnd-to-end driving modelsRobotics / embodied AISystem architecture 0→1→scale
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