Senior Process Architect for Automotive Safety & AI (Equity)

NVIDIA; Michigan; On-site; USD 272,000 - 431,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA seeks a Senior Process Architect to lead the DriveOS process architecture, ensuring coherence, practicality, and scalability across automotive programs. You will translate lifecycle expectations and standards into verifiable workflows, templates, and governance for development teams.

The role requires deep Automotive SPICE and ISO/SAE safety expertise, plus the ability to drive risk-based tailoring, quality gates, and cross-functional collaboration with global teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in engineering, computer science, systems engineering, quality, or a related field.
• 15+ years of experience in automotive or other safety-critical product development, including process architecture, engineering quality, systems engineering, or technical program leadership.
• Deep understanding of Automotive SPICE, including how process capability, base practices, and generic practices translate into effective engineering behavior and assessable evidence!
• Strong understanding of the software and systems development lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, implementation, verification, validation, configuration, change, and release management.
• Hands-on experience with automotive functional safety, cybersecurity, and AI/ML safety requirements, including ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, and ISO 8800.

Responsibilities

• Lead the canonical DriveOS process architecture, terminology, roles and interfaces across engineering, program management, quality, functional safety, and cybersecurity.
• Develop and govern a risk-based tailoring framework that defines variant applicability, decision rights, acceptance criteria, and traceable approvals before execution begins.
• Establish process maturity, release-readiness, and quality-gate criteria that surface risk early and support predictable, first-pass acceptance.
• Translate internal lifecycle expectations and applicable industry standards into clear, verifiable workflows, templates, guidance, and mentorship for development teams.
• Partner with domain leads, program managers, assessors, and tool owners to align plans, evidence, dependencies, and handoffs across product variants.
• Convert recurring defects, assessment observations, and release takeaways into durable improvements to the common process, measurements, and training.
• Drive process automation and AI-assisted workflows where they demonstrably reduce risk, rework, or cycle time while preserving governance, traceability, and engineering judgment.
• Serve as an independent technical authority for process coherence and efficiency, raising gaps with a clear statement of product impact, accountable owner, recovery plan, and date.

Skills

Leadership

Process architecture

Stakeholder management

Risk-based thinking

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Workflow tooling

AI-assisted tools

Job description

NVIDIA seeks a Senior Process Architect to lead the DriveOS process architecture, ensuring coherence, practicality, and scalability across automotive programs. You will translate lifecycle expectations and standards into verifiable workflows, templates, and governance for development teams.

The role requires deep Automotive SPICE and ISO/SAE safety expertise, plus the ability to drive risk-based tailoring, quality gates, and cross-functional collaboration with global teams.