Senior Software Engineer, Planning and Controls - Autonomous Vehicles

Details

We are seeking an energetic, hardworking Senior Software Engineer to join our Prediction team and develop key autonomous driving features for our DRIVE solution. In this role, you will spearhead work on various planning problems to build robust software solutions. Through effective collaboration with established teams, you will help design and mature new products all the way through to production.

Responsibilities

• Architect new designs to enable new functions or to improve performance.
• Lead engineering efforts to develop, tune, and verify algorithms and software using both ML-based approaches and classical approaches in vehicle, VRU, and other object prediction.
• Debug and address issues identified in simulations and in test drives.
• Collaborate with a globally distributed team to enhance software architecture, and improve development processes and tooling.
• Define and verify product requirements through detailed analysis, simulation, in-car testing, and benchmarking existing products.
• Mature prototype software to production quality.

Requirements

• BS or higher in an engineering or technical field (Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Science, Physics, etc.) or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of practical experience.
• Experience writing software in C++.
• Experience with prediction model training and deployment.
• Comfortable working in an Agile/Scrum software development environment using Gerrit (or similar).
• Comfortable developing software with GIT in a Linux environment.

Ways to stand out / Preferred

• Experience shipping automotive software products, especially Autonomous Driving or ADAS.
• Exposure to regulatory standards such as ISO 26262 and safety decompositions (ASIL) or an industry equivalent; prior experience in building safety-critical software architectures.
• Experience building deep learning–based prediction systems with model training and inference.
• Expertise in fundamental physics — kinematic and dynamic models of rigid bodies.
• Background with traditional planning algorithms (A*, D*, RRTs, probabilistic roadmaps, etc.) is a plus.

About the company

Academic and commercial groups around the world are powering a revolution in artificial intelligence using deep learning techniques running on NVIDIA GPUs, enabling breakthroughs in problems from image classification to speech recognition to natural language processing and autonomous vehicles. Intelligent AI computers that can learn, reason and interact with people are no longer science fiction. Today, a self-driving car powered by AI can meander through a country road at night and find its way. An AI-powered robot can learn motor skills through trial and error. This is truly an outstanding time. The era of AI has begun and NVIDIA is owning the drive with revolutionary hardware and software. Come join us at NVIDIA!

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary range: 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD (final base salary determined by location, experience, and internal pay equity).
• Eligible for equity and benefits (see company benefits page).

Application deadline

• Applications accepted at least until October 21, 2025.

Equal opportunity

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. They do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.