Senior Mapping Engineer: Self-Driving AI & Graphs

NVIDIA; United States; On-site; USD 152,000 - 288,000; Full time

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Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA DRIVE team seeks AI‑powered engineers to design map‑based driving algorithms and in‑vehicle software for autonomous vehicles. You’ll work on graph‑tailored transformer models, data fusion, and evaluation frameworks, advancing perception and localization in real‑time systems.

You will contribute to scalable map content workflows, health monitoring, and integration into the core AV stack. Equity and benefits accompany the role.

Qualifications

• 4+ years with BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Background in computer vision, 3D geometry and machine learning.
• Heavy AI user for day‑to‑day development (design, coding, review, and testing).
• Hands‑on experience with Claude CLI, Cursor, and other advanced code assistants.
• Strong prompt‑crafting skills: break down problems, give context, iterate with AI.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop algorithms for map‑based driving products.
• Architecture design for map provider, health monitors and data fusion with perception.
• Develop highly efficient in‑vehicle code in C++14 or later.
• Design and integrate algorithmic solutions into the core of NVIDIA AV.
• Research and develop transformer based models tailored for graphs.
• Implement evaluation frameworks to measure performance of large scale LLMs.
• Analyze and fine‑tune SOTA pretrained models on domain specific datasets.
• Build automated map content analysis in Python, JavaScript or TypeScript.

Skills

Computer vision

3D geometry

Machine learning

AI user for development

Prompt‑crafting with AI

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Claude CLI

Cursor

Code assistants

gRPC

FlatBuffers

Protocol Buffers

CUDA

Job description

NVIDIA DRIVE team seeks AI‑powered engineers to design map‑based driving algorithms and in‑vehicle software for autonomous vehicles. You’ll work on graph‑tailored transformer models, data fusion, and evaluation frameworks, advancing perception and localization in real‑time systems.

You will contribute to scalable map content workflows, health monitoring, and integration into the core AV stack. Equity and benefits accompany the role.