Senior Manager, Engineering - Autonomous Vehicles

at Nvidia

📍 Santa Clara, United States

USD 272,000-431,200 per year

SENIOR

✅ On-site

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Details

NVIDIA is building the future of autonomous driving, from silicon to full-stack AI systems that power next-generation autonomous vehicles. The team is developing safe, scalable autonomy through extensive, diverse, and high-quality data gathered from consumer fleets.

The manager will guide engineering and data teams developing systems and algorithms that extract intelligence from petascale fleet data.

Responsibilities

Lead, encourage, and develop engineering and data teams distributed across Europe and the United States.
Architect and operationalize NVIDIA's in-car data curation strategy to support AI training, simulation, and continuous autonomous vehicle performance improvements.
Invent and deploy algorithms that mine, classify, and surface valuable driving scenarios from customer vehicles.
Champion data quality and metadata standards to accelerate development and improve safety and performance.

Requirements

10+ years of overall industry experience, including 4+ years in technical leadership.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Demonstrated success leading data-focused teams in the autonomous vehicle or robotics domain.
Hands-on experience with VLMs, LLMs, or multimodal AI systems applied to perception, data triage, or automated labeling.
Prior experience in the autonomous vehicle ecosystem, including perception, mapping, robotics, ADAS/AD, or autonomous vehicle data workflows.
Strong communication, careful planning, and technical leadership capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on experience with autonomous vehicle scenario mining, drive replay, or simulation feedback loops.
Ability to drive clarity and alignment across research, engineering, and product leadership.

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary range: USD 272,000–431,250 per year, determined by location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.
Eligible for equity and benefits.
NVIDIA offers a comprehensive benefits package.
Applications will be accepted at least until August 29, 2026.
NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive work environment.