Autonomous Driving GPU Engineer

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Houston, Northern (TX, KY)

Hybrid

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Bot Auto is hiring a GPU Software Engineer to optimize end-to-end GPU performance for real-time autonomous driving workloads. You will work on sensor processing, neural network inference, and GPU-accelerated components in embedded platforms.

Join a cross-functional team of software engineers, AI researchers, and hardware specialists to design onboard GPU architectures for perception, planning, and control modules. Strong CUDA, PyTorch, and C/C++ skills are essential.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
  • Strong knowledge of parallel computing principles, GPU architecture, memory hierarchy, and performance optimization techniques.
  • Experience profiling GPU applications using tools such as NVIDIA Nsight Systems, Nsight Compute, or equivalent.
  • Experience deploying or optimizing neural network inference workloads using PyTorch, ONNX, and TensorRT.
  • Experience with real-time embedded systems and handling large data streams from sensors (camera, LiDAR, radar).
  • Strong proficiency in C/C++ and Python.

Responsibilities

  • Optimize end-to-end GPU performance for real-time autonomous driving workloads, including sensor processing and NN inference.
  • Develop and optimize parallel computing algorithms and GPU-accelerated components (CUDA).
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and improve onboard GPU software architectures for perception, planning and control modules.
  • Profile and analyze bottlenecks across GPU compute, memory access, data movement, synchronization, and CPU–GPU interaction.
  • Debug and optimize GPU-based software to improve latency, throughput, and stability on embedded platforms.

Skills

parallel computing
GPU architecture
memory hierarchy
performance optimization
C/C++
Python
neural network inference
real-time embedded systems
sensor data streams
profiling

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in CS/EE or related

Tools

CUDA
Nsight Systems
Nsight Compute
PyTorch
ONNX
TensorRT
NVIDIA Jetson
MPS/MIG

Job description

Bot Auto is hiring a GPU Software Engineer to optimize end-to-end GPU performance for real-time autonomous driving workloads. You will work on sensor processing, neural network inference, and GPU-accelerated components in embedded platforms.

Join a cross-functional team of software engineers, AI researchers, and hardware specialists to design onboard GPU architectures for perception, planning, and control modules. Strong CUDA, PyTorch, and C/C++ skills are essential.

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