Senior Software Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

Job description

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation fueled by extraordinary technology—and exceptional people. Today, we’re harnessing the power of AI to build the next generation of autonomous machines. From self-driving cars to intelligent robots, NVIDIA is developing the full-stack platform that enables machines to perceive, reason, and act safely in the real world.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help define the runtime intelligence and safety architecture behind next-generation autonomous driving systems. This role sits at the intersection of end-to-end AI driving models, vehicle dynamics, and safety-critical autonomy. Modern AI models can generate highly capable driving behaviors, but deploying them safely in production vehicles requires solving some of the hardest problems in real-time robotics: compute constraints, physical feasibility, uncertainty handling, runtime validation, and safety arbitration. You will build the framework that bridges large-scale learned driving models with deterministic planning and vehicle-level safety guardrails—ensuring AI-generated trajectories are physically feasible, safe, explainable, and deployable on real automotive hardware platforms. This role is ideal for engineers excited about bringing modern AI into real-world physical systems where latency, compute efficiency, vehicle dynamics, and safety constraints fundamentally matter.