Principal 3D Perception Engineer for Autonomous Driving

NVIDIA; United States; On-site; USD 190,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Perception Engineer to lead the design and productization of its next-generation autonomous driving perception stack. You will own the 3D obstacle perception architecture, drive cross‑functional execution, and mentor engineers while staying hands-on with models and implementations.

You will build production‑grade, multi-camera and multi-sensor perception systems, define data strategies, optimize for latency and accuracy, and collaborate with safety, systems, and

Qualifications

• 15+ years of hands‑on experience developing deep learning‑based perception or closely related systems.
• Demonstrated technical leadership as a senior/principal‑level IC: owning features end‑to‑end and guiding architecture decisions.
• Proven data‑driven development experience with collaboration with data, labeling, and ground‑truth teams.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or C++, delivering production‑quality software.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related fields (or equivalent experience).

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for 3D obstacle perception for autonomous driving.
• Design and develop 3D perception models using multi‑camera and multi‑sensor fusion (camera, radar, lidar).
• Lead the development of production‑grade DL models with objective definitions, experiments, and training/evaluation best practices.
• Define KPI frameworks to quantify perception performance and improve accuracy, robustness, and efficiency.
• Lead data strategy and collaboration with data and ground‑truth teams to maximize impact and enable model‑in‑the‑loop tooling.

Skills

Deep learning

Technical leadership

Python

C++

Data-driven development

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/EE or related

Tools

PyTorch

CUDA

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Perception Engineer to lead the design and productization of its next-generation autonomous driving perception stack. You will own the 3D obstacle perception architecture, drive cross‑functional execution, and mentor engineers while staying hands-on with models and implementations.

You will build production‑grade, multi-camera and multi-sensor perception systems, define data strategies, optimize for latency and accuracy, and collaborate with safety, systems, and