Lead Automotive Process Architect for Safety & AI

NVIDIA; New York (NY); On-site; USD 272,000 - 431,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA in New York seeks a Senior DriveOS Process Architect to lead canonical process architecture, tailoring, and governance across engineering, program management, quality, safety, and cybersecurity.

You will translate lifecycle expectations into actionable workflows and mentoring, drive quality gates, and leverage data and AI-assisted tools to improve reliability while maintaining traceability. Equity and benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in engineering, computer science, systems engineering, quality, or related field.
• 15+ years of experience in automotive or safety-critical product development, including process architecture or technical leadership.
• Deep understanding of Automotive SPICE and how practices translate into evidence.
• Strong understanding of the software and systems development lifecycle.
• Hands-on experience with automotive functional safety, cybersecurity, and AI/ML safety requirements (ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, ISO 8800).
• Proven track record building risk-based tailoring and quality gates in multi-variant environments.
• Excellent written communication, facilitation, and influence for senior leaders.
• Experience using data, workflow tooling, and AI-assisted capabilities to improve processes while maintaining accountability.

Responsibilities

• Lead the canonical DriveOS process architecture, terminology, roles and interfaces across engineering, program management, quality, functional safety, and cybersecurity.
• Develop and govern a risk-based tailoring framework with variant applicability, decision rights, acceptance criteria, and traceable approvals.
• Establish process maturity, release-readiness, and quality-gate criteria to surface risk early and support first-pass acceptance.
• Translate lifecycle expectations and standards into workflows, templates, guidance, and mentoring for development teams.
• Partner with domain leads, program managers, assessors, and tool owners to align plans and handoffs across variants.
• Convert recurring defects and release takeaways into durable improvements to process, measurements, and training.
• Drive process automation and AI-assisted workflows to reduce risk, rework, or cycle time while preserving governance and traceability.
• Serve as an independent technical authority for process coherence, raising gaps with impact, owner, recovery plan, and date.

Skills

Process architecture

Quality governance

Cybersecurity awareness

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in engineering, computer science, systems engineering, quality, or related field

Job description

NVIDIA in New York seeks a Senior DriveOS Process Architect to lead canonical process architecture, tailoring, and governance across engineering, program management, quality, safety, and cybersecurity.

You will translate lifecycle expectations into actionable workflows and mentoring, drive quality gates, and leverage data and AI-assisted tools to improve reliability while maintaining traceability. Equity and benefits are offered.