Senior AV Data & AI Systems Leader

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 272,000 - 431,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a senior data/leadership professional to guide global data teams and shape NVIDIA’s in-car data curation strategy for AI training and autonomous driving initiatives. The role builds scalable architectures, drives data quality, and delivers robust perception pipelines.

You will lead teams across Europe and the United States, craft algorithms for mining and surfacing driving scenarios, and partner with research, engineering, and product leadership to align on

Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience with 4+ years in technical leadership.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated success leading data-focused teams in AV or robotics.
• Hands-on experience with VLMs, LLMs, or multimodal AI systems applied to perception, data triage, or automated labeling.
• Prior experience in the autonomous vehicle ecosystem - perception, mapping, robotics, ADAS/AD, or AV data workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead, encourage, and develop elite engineering and data teams distributed across Europe and the United States.
• Architect and operationalize NVIDIA’s in-car curation strategy, powering AI training, simulation, and continuous AV performance improvements.
• Invent and deploy brand new algorithms that mine, classify, and surface the most valuable driving scenarios from customer cars.
• Champion data quality and metadata standards that accelerate development and improve safety and performance.

Skills

Technical leadership

Data-focused leadership

AI systems

Perception/AV data workflows

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a senior data/leadership professional to guide global data teams and shape NVIDIA’s in-car data curation strategy for AI training and autonomous driving initiatives. The role builds scalable architectures, drives data quality, and delivers robust perception pipelines.

You will lead teams across Europe and the United States, craft algorithms for mining and surfacing driving scenarios, and partner with research, engineering, and product leadership to align on