Senior Software Engineer, World Model Systems Engineering - Autonomous Vehicles

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The Automotive Vehicles team is searching for a creative and expert Systems Engineer to help us expand NVIDIA's autonomous vehicle solution. You will participate in a focused effort to productize ground-breaking perception solutions that will redefine the world of transportation and the growing field of self-driving cars. You will work with a world-wide team of systems engineers, AI applied researchers and software engineers in building world-class perception and mapping and localization solutions, while achieving or exceeding all NVIDIA and automotive standards & guidelines. You'll find the work is exciting, fun and relevant!

• →Develop perception, mapping and localization system requirements from use cases and customer requirements
• →Perform analysis to define performance requirements and allocate performance budgets
• →Plan validation and formulate test cases and critical metrics to ensure compliance with requirements
• →Test performance and triage results
• →Perform detailed analysis and develop dashboards
• →Work closely with hardware engineering, safety, developers and product teams to ensure we build the right product
• →Find innovative solutions to constantly improve our processes
• →Establish relationships with all relevant partners across the organization

• 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
• Experience with VLMs, LLMs and agentic workflows for purposes of automated triage
• 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++

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

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