Principal Process Architect, Automotive AI Safety - Equity

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 272,000 - 431,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation seeks a Senior Process Architect for DriveOS to make the system-of-work coherent, practical, and scalable across a globally distributed team. You will lead canonical process architecture, define interfaces, and convert lifecycle expectations into clear, verifiable workflows and templates for development programs.

With 15+ years in automotive or safety-critical product development, you’ll apply Automotive SPICE, manage risk-based tailoring and quality gates, and mentor teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in engineering, computer science, systems engineering, quality, or a related field.
• 15+ years of experience in automotive or other safety-critical product development, including process architecture, engineering quality, systems engineering, or technical program leadership.
• Deep understanding of Automotive SPICE, including how process capability, base practices, and generic practices translate into effective engineering behavior and assessable evidence!
• Strong understanding of the software and systems development lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, implementation, verification, validation, configuration, change, and release management.
• Hands‑on experience with automotive functional safety, cybersecurity, and AI/ML safety requirements, including ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, and ISO 8800.
• Proven track record to build risk‑based tailoring, establish quality gates, and balance compliance needs with program realities in a complex, multi‑variant product environment.
• Excellent written communication, facilitation, and influence skills; able to make process requirements actionable for engineers and decision‑ready for senior leaders.
• Experience using data, workflow tooling, and AI‑assisted capabilities to improve engineering processes without weakening accountability or traceability.

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 that defines variant applicability, decision rights, acceptance criteria, and traceable approvals before execution begins.
• Establish process maturity, release-readiness, and quality-gate criteria that surface risk early and support predictable, first-pass acceptance.
• Translate internal lifecycle expectations and applicable industry standards into clear, verifiable workflows, templates, guidance, and mentorship for development teams.
• Partner with domain leads, program managers, assessors, and tool owners to align plans, evidence, dependencies, and handoffs across product variants.
• Convert recurring defects, assessment observations, and release takeaways into durable improvements to the common process, measurements, and training.
• Drive process automation and AI-assisted workflows where they demonstrably reduce risk, rework, or cycle time while preserving governance, traceability, and engineering judgment.
• Serve as an independent technical authority for process coherence and efficiency, raising gaps with a clear statement of product impact, accountable owner, recovery plan, and date.

Education

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

Tools

Automotive SPICE

ISO 26262/ISO 21434/ISO 8800

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation seeks a Senior Process Architect for DriveOS to make the system-of-work coherent, practical, and scalable across a globally distributed team. You will lead canonical process architecture, define interfaces, and convert lifecycle expectations into clear, verifiable workflows and templates for development programs.

With 15+ years in automotive or safety-critical product development, you’ll apply Automotive SPICE, manage risk-based tailoring and quality gates, and mentor teams