Senior ML Engineer, Physical AI & Vehicle Simulation

NLP PEOPLE; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 356,500; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, CA is seeking outstanding Machine Learning Engineers to join our Physical AI teams. This role focuses on building high-fidelity synthetic data using state-of-the-art diffusion and multimodal models to support AI that interacts with the physical world and to develop automated QA for generated outputs.

You will lead end-to-end ML software development, optimize performance, and document complex systems while collaborating with users of synthetic datasets to ensure

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Graphics, Robotics, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 12+ years of experience in ML software development.
• Deep technical knowledge of image/video synthesis, including diffusion models.

Responsibilities

• Architect Generative Pipelines: Develop and implement advanced image and video generation/editing/reasoning models to produce high-fidelity synthetic data for Physical AI applications.
• Multimodal Development: Build and fine-tune large-scale models, including VLMs, MLLMs, Generation models, applying transformer, auto-regressive and diffusion-based architectures.
• Controllable Synthesis: Apply and evolve user controls during data generation to ensure precise environmental and structural control over generated data.
• Automated Quality Assurance for Sensor Data and Ego Policy: Build and test automated data QA pipeline using MLLMs and a mix of well known classical algorithms.
• Detailed Validation: Establish KPI evaluation and validation to ensure quality and physical accuracy of synthetic releases.
• SOTA Data Engineering: Lead the generation of massive training datasets using various state-of-the-art techniques.
• Contribute to the full lifecycle of ML software, including performance optimization, testing, and high-quality documentation.

Skills

Python

DNN libraries

Image/video synthesis

Diffusion models

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/Graphics/Robotics

Tools

Workflow management

Database experience

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, CA is seeking outstanding Machine Learning Engineers to join our Physical AI teams. This role focuses on building high-fidelity synthetic data using state-of-the-art diffusion and multimodal models to support AI that interacts with the physical world and to develop automated QA for generated outputs.

You will lead end-to-end ML software development, optimize performance, and document complex systems while collaborating with users of synthetic datasets to ensure