Senior Deep Reinforcement Learning Engineer, Autonomous Driving

Nvidia

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On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$224,000–$356,500 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
61 days ago
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TL;DR · Senior Deep Reinforcement Learning Engineer, Autonomous Driving

As a Senior Deep Reinforcement Learning Engineer - Autonomous Driving, you will join the team focused on building intelligent, safe, and efficient self-driving technology. Your primary responsibilities include building and implementing brand new Reinforcement Learning algorithms for autonomous vehicle decision-making and planning. You will develop scalable training pipelines, maintain simulation environments, and collaborate with perception and planning teams to integrate models into the unified autonomous driving stack. You will benchmark performance against imitation learning baselines and optimize models for production-grade automotive hardware. Required skills include proficiency in PyTorch or TensorFlow, C++, and Python for real-time systems. You must possess a solid background in policy gradient methods like PPO and GRPO, actor-critic architectures, and on-policy or off-policy RL within the context of autonomous driving.

What you'll do

  • Build and implement new Reinforcement Learning algorithms for autonomous vehicle decision-making and planning.
  • Develop and maintain scalable training pipelines and simulation environments for RL training.
  • Integrate RL models into the unified autonomous driving stack with perception and planning teams.
  • Benchmark RL model performance against imitation learning baselines in complex urban environments.
  • Optimize and deploy RL models to production-grade automotive hardware.
  • Implement and debug complex RL systems using PyTorch, TensorFlow, C++, and Python.

What we're looking for

  • BS or higher in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 12+ years of experience in the related field.
  • Solid background in Reinforcement Learning, including policy gradient methods, actor-critic architectures, and on-policy and off-policy RL.
  • Proficiency in PyTorch or TensorFlow with real experience in RL-related algorithms.
  • Experience in C++ and Python development for real-time systems.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a track record of implementing and debugging complex RL systems.
  • Background in shipping autonomous driving features or embodied AI (preferred).
  • Experience with generative models, large-scale data flywheels, or training policies on own rollout distributions (preferred).

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