Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Perception - Autonomous Driving
NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA), Remote$184k - $356.5kfull-timePosted 4w ago
About the role
Senior Perception Engineer to develop and productize NVIDIA’s autonomous driving perception solutions, focusing on traffic signal understanding (traffic lights, traffic signs, road markings, construction objects, and other traffic signals) for self-driving cars. Drive end-to-end perception modules, improve robustness/accuracy/efficiency, and enable perception across diverse operating designs without reliance on HD maps.
Responsibilities
- Designing end2end solutions for Perception and AV stack to enable traffic signal detections across various driving environments from complex intersections to rural roads to highways
- Applied research and development of innovative deep learning models for traffic light detection, traffic sign recognition, road marking detection, construction object detection, text recognition, and other traffic signal tasks
- Develop generalizable approaches to support diverse ODDs and Country/region expansion
- Drive and prioritize data-driven development by working with large data collection and labeling teams to bring in high value data to improve perception system accuracy
- Efforts will include data collection prioritization and planning, labeling prioritization, labeling efficiency optimization, so that value of data is maximized
- Leverage data simulation and augmentation for solving extreme scenarios
- Productize the developed perception solutions by meeting product requirements for safety, latency, and SW robustness.
Qualifications
- Minimum Requirement: 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.
- 2+ years of technical leadership demonstrating high technical and organizational complexity is a big plus.
- Hands-on work experience in developing deep learning and algorithms to solve sophisticated real world problems, and proficiency in using deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch).
- Experience in data-driven development and collaboration with data and ground truth teams.
- Strong programming skills in python and/or C++.
- Outstanding communication and teamwork skills as we work as a tightly-knit team, always discussing and learning from each other.
Skills
Required:Deep LearningPythonC++PyTorchData-driven development
Nice to have:Perception for autonomous driving
Benefits
- equity
- benefits
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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