Senior Software Engineer, L4 - Autonomous Vehicles

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build the next generation AI-native autonomous driving architecture, integrating classical safety stacks, foundation models, and scalable AI systems into a unified production platform. The role involves working on Prediction, Decision, Planning, and Control architecture, developing world model-based planning and reasoning models, and contributing to end-to-end data-driven AV pipelines and large-scale model inference.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will compose and build the architecture behind next-generation self-driving vehicle technology.
  2. Work on Prediction, Decision, Planning and Control architecture
  3. Build robust system-level safety and fallback strategies
  4. Work on End-to-end data-driven AV pipelines
  5. Develop a World Model–based planning and reasoning model

Skills

Required

  • 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.

Nice to have

  • PhD in a relevant field or related research experience
  • Knowledge of CUDA is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • 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.

Other signals

  • AI-native autonomous driving architecture
  • foundation models
  • scalable AI systems
  • integration of classical safety architectures and large-scale AI-driven systems