Director, Autonomous Driving AI Architecture

NVIDIA AI; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 320,000 - 489,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Director-level technical leader to define and build an autonomous driving architecture that blends classical safety with learned driving methods. You will lead a world-class engineering organization spanning prediction, planning, control, safety, and perception, driving production-scale integration and deployment.

You will collaborate with research to translate breakthroughs into scalable autonomous driving systems, ensuring safety, redundancy, and robust operation across

Qualifications

• PhD/MS/BS with extensive leadership experience in production AI/robotics systems.
• Experience leading senior engineers, architects, and managers on complex autonomous platforms.
• Strong background in driverless vehicle architectures and learning-based autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical vision and architecture for NVIDIA’s autonomous driving stack.
• Build and lead a high-performing org across Prediction, Decision Making, Planning, Control, and Safety.
• Define integration of classical safety with learned driving systems in production.
• Drive safety, redundancy, and degraded-mode strategies for whole-system reliability.
• Lead end-to-end data-driven autonomous driving pipelines from perception to operation.
• Advance large-scale foundation models and their deployment in production vehicles.

Skills

Leadership

Autonomous driving

Cross-functional

Communication

CUDA & GPU

Education

PhD (12+ yrs)

MS (10+ yrs)

BS (15+ yrs)

Tools

CUDA

GPU computing

AI infrastructure

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Director-level technical leader to define and build an autonomous driving architecture that blends classical safety with learned driving methods. You will lead a world-class engineering organization spanning prediction, planning, control, safety, and perception, driving production-scale integration and deployment.

You will collaborate with research to translate breakthroughs into scalable autonomous driving systems, ensuring safety, redundancy, and robust operation across