Senior Longitudinal Planning Engineer - Autonomous Driving

Roboticsconnected; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to advance longitudinal planning for production autonomous vehicles. You will design and optimize speed and trajectory planning, and collaborate with global teams across L2–L4 programs to ensure safety, performance, and release readiness.

You'll apply strong C++ and Python skills, model-based concepts, and validation tooling to tune algorithms for diverse vehicle platforms, powertrains, and OEM requirements. Travel as needed.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of autonomous driving, ADAS, or robotics software development experience.
• Strong knowledge of speed planning, trajectory planning, vehicle dynamics, and numerical optimization.
• Production software development, simulation, log analysis, on-vehicle debugging, and parameter tuning.
• Solid English communication skills and collaborative work style.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize longitudinal planning algorithms for car following, stopping, yielding, merging, cut-ins, intersections, and other complex driving scenarios.
• Develop and improve speed generation, speed adaptation, yield planning, and trajectory planning.
• Improve driving safety, comfort, efficiency, and robustness across different traffic conditions and vehicle platforms.
• Adapt algorithms and tune parameters for different vehicle dynamics, powertrains, braking systems, actuator delays, and OEM requirements.
• Analyze, triage, and resolve complex Planning & Control issues across multiple autonomous driving programs from L2 through L4.
• Perform root-cause analysis using simulation, replay tools, vehicle logs, and on-vehicle diagnostics, and provide clear resolution proposals.
• Conduct on-vehicle testing and performance tuning to validate driving behavior in real-world scenarios.
• Collaborate with global teams and OEM partners on software integration, validation, and release readiness.
• Travel domestically and internationally for vehicle testing and customer collaboration as needed.

Skills

Autonomous driving

C++

Python

Robotics software

English communication

Education

BS/MS in CS/EE/Robotics

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to advance longitudinal planning for production autonomous vehicles. You will design and optimize speed and trajectory planning, and collaborate with global teams across L2–L4 programs to ensure safety, performance, and release readiness.

You'll apply strong C++ and Python skills, model-based concepts, and validation tooling to tune algorithms for diverse vehicle platforms, powertrains, and OEM requirements. Travel as needed.