Senior Localization Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

NVIDIA AI; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Localization Engineer for Autonomous Vehicles to help advance map-based perception and localization. You will design robust solutions for map-enhanced driving, localize to map data, and ensure performance across diverse environments and data sets.

Proficiency in modern C++, CUDA, and computer vision is required, with strong communication and collaboration skills to work across teams on safety-critical automotive software.

Qualifications

• PhD with 2+ years, MS with 4+ years, or BS with 6+ years of related experience.
• Experience in computer vision, 3D geometry, mapping, localization or related technologies.
• Outstanding communication and teamwork skills.
• Meticulous craftsmanship of software in modern C++.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust and accurate solutions for map enhanced autonomous driving.
• Localize to map data to provide precise models of environment around the car.
• Ensure algorithms perform on large real and synthetic data across environments.
• Write safe, efficient real-time code in C++, using CUDA parallelism.

Skills

C++

Computer Vision

3D Geometry

Localization/Mapping

Communication

Linear Algebra

Education

PhD

MS

BS

Tools

CUDA

Job description

Intelligent machines powered by Artificial Intelligence computers that can learn, reason and interact with people are no longer science fiction. Today, a self-driving car powered by AI can meander through a country road at night and find its way. An AI-powered robot can learn motor skills through trial and error. Do you agree with us that this truly is an extraordinary time and that the era of AI has begun? We are proud that NVIDIA is playing a meaningful role in this development, where our hardware and software platforms power a large eco-system of partners who are working to deliver products, all over the world. In the space of self-driving cars, NVIDIA provides the DRIVE AGX hardware platform which runs our DRIVE software.

We are looking for a Senior Localization Engineer for Autonomous Vehicles to join us. An always available map helps tremendously for reliable autonomous driving. In this role, you will help build robust solutions for using ubiquitous navigation maps as well as our crowd sourced maps in our driving stack.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design and build robust and accurate solutions for map enhanced autonomous driving with ASIL safety requirements in mind.
• Localize to map data to provide the most precise and rich model of the environment around the car, including beyond the horizon of perception.
• Make sure our algorithms work well on large amounts of real and synthetic data, in a diverse range of environments and conditions.
• Write safe, highly efficient real-time code in C++, making use of algorithmic parallelism offered by GPGPU programming in CUDA.
• Productize all software for real-world deployment to consumer cars, following automotive quality and safety standards (MISRA, ISO26262).

What We Need To See

• PhD with 2+ years, MS with 4+ years, or BS (or equivalent experience) with 6+ years of relevant experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience in computer vision, 3D geometry, mapping, localization or related technologies.
• Outstanding communication and teamwork skills, as this project requires both cross-team collaboration and work in a tightly-knit team.
• Meticulous craftsmanship of software in modern C++.
• A solid foundation in linear algebra and geometric computer vision.

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Significant industry experience in above areas.
• Experience developing real-time Computer Vision systems.
• Experience with CUDA parallel programming.

We believe that realizing self-driving cars will be a defining contribution of our generation (e.g. traffic accidents cause ~1.25 million deaths per year world-wide). We have the funding and scale, but we need your help on our team! NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers with some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working here. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you! #AutonomousVehicles

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