Senior Software Engineer, World Model Systems Engineering - Autonomous Vehicles

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their World Model Systems Engineering team focused on Autonomous Vehicles. The role involves developing system requirements, performing analysis, planning validation, and working with cross-functional teams to build and productize perception, mapping, and localization solutions for self-driving cars. Experience with autonomous vehicles, machine learning, computer vision, and large datasets is highly valued.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop perception, mapping and localization system requirements from use cases and customer requirements
  2. Perform analysis to define performance requirements and allocate performance budgets
  3. Plan validation and formulate test cases and critical metrics to ensure compliance with requirements
  4. Perform analysis and develop dashboards
  5. Work closely with hardware engineering, safety, developers and product teams to ensure we build the right product

Skills

Required

  • MS, or PhD in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Data Science or another related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 8+ years systems engineering experience on complex systems, systems analysis (e.g. error budget creation, modeling of scenarios), data analysis, and statistical analysis
  • Experience with verification and validation of world model stacks
  • Data strategy definition
  • Understanding of failure analysis methodologies such as Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and MTBF decomposition
  • Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to drive alignment across large organizations
  • Proficiency with SQL and Python or C++

Nice to have

  • Experience with autonomous vehicles and/or machine learning, computer vision
  • You have experience working with large datasets, data science, analytics
  • Software engineering experience

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years systems engineering experience on complex systems
  • Experience with verification and validation of world model stacks
  • Data strategy definition

Other signals

  • productize perception solutions
  • autonomous vehicle solution
  • world model systems engineering