Senior AV Evaluation Platform Engineer - Equity

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a senior software engineer to build and scale evaluation and analysis infrastructure for Autonomous Vehicle development. You will develop tools and platforms enabling AV engineers to run log data analysis, assess model behavior, debug regressions, and generate metrics at scale.

You will design distributed systems, APIs, and CI pipelines, define data contracts, and improve observability while collaborating across teams to deliver end-to-end workflows.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience building production systems, developer tools, data platforms, or evaluation infrastructure.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or similar languages.
• Experience designing distributed systems, workflow orchestration, APIs, backend services, or data pipelines.
• Ability to reason across systems software, data schemas, backend services, and user-facing tooling.
• Experience collaborating across teams and driving ambiguous technical work to completion.
• Balance new feature development with production stability, maintainability, and user support in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with Protobuf, Parquet, schema evolution, data contracts, and large-scale analytical storage.

Responsibilities

• Design and build evaluation and analysis tooling used by AV and ML engineers.
• Improve analyzer workflows, onboarding, execution, qualification, and production observability.
• Build reliable services, APIs, CI pipelines, and UI-facing workflows across the stack.
• Define and evolve data contracts for analyzer outputs, including schemas and time-series data.
• Improve system stability, performance, traceability, alerting, and operational debuggability for high-scale workloads.
• Partner with AV engineering, data platform, infrastructure, and product teams to deliver end-to-end workflows.
• Establish guardrails for analyzer rollout, including pre-merge validation and output-size controls.

Skills

Python

Go

Distributed systems

APIs

Data pipelines

Collaboration

Productivity

Observability

Education

BS in Computer Science or related

MS in Computer Science or related

Tools

Protobuf

Parquet

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a senior software engineer to build and scale evaluation and analysis infrastructure for Autonomous Vehicle development. You will develop tools and platforms enabling AV engineers to run log data analysis, assess model behavior, debug regressions, and generate metrics at scale.

You will design distributed systems, APIs, and CI pipelines, define data contracts, and improve observability while collaborating across teams to deliver end-to-end workflows.