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Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing
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As a Senior Software Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles, you will join the team to define runtime intelligence and safety architecture for next-generation autonomous driving systems. You will build frameworks that bridge large-scale learned driving models with deterministic planning and vehicle-level safety guardrails, ensuring AI-generated trajectories are physically feasible and safe for real automotive hardware. Your daily responsibilities include designing planning frameworks, developing runtime arbitration mechanisms, and building scalable architectures to manage compute constraints and latency. You will also implement safety-oriented capabilities like trajectory validation and Minimum Risk Maneuver strategies while debugging complex autonomy edge cases. The role requires expertise in C++, robotics systems, motion planning, and machine learning models. You will solve critical problems involving vehicle dynamics, uncertainty handling, and the integration of foundation-model-based driving systems into production-grade, safety-critical vehicle platforms.
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Autonomous Driving
AI Foundation Models
Robotics
CUDA
System Architecture
Large-scale ML Systems
Prediction
Decision
Planning
Control
Performance Tuning
Embodied AI
High-Performance Computing
TensorRT
CUDA
C++
Python
PyTorch
ONNX
Triton
Deep Learning Inference
Model Optimization
Quantization
Pruning
Linux
ISO 26262
QNX
Real-time Systems
DriveOS
Hypervisors