Senior Software Engineer, Mapping - Autonomous Vehicles

NVIDIA AI; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA AI is seeking passionate engineers for the DRIVE Mapping team to advance SD maps for localization, routing and navigation in autonomous vehicles. You will design, implement and optimize in-vehicle code in C++14+, work on graph-tailored transformers, and build scalable map-building workflows with Python/TypeScript tooling.

The role emphasizes real-time software, embedded platforms and cutting-edge AI for self-driving cars, with equity and benefits available. Applications close Aug 10, 2026.

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 tools like Claude CLI, Cursor, and other advanced code assistants.

Responsibilities

• Design and development of algorithms for map-based driving products.
• Architecture design for map provider, health monitors and data fusion with perception.
• Develop in-vehicle code in C++14 or later.
• Integrate algorithmic solutions into NVIDIA AV core.
• Research transformer-based models tailored for graphs.
• Build evaluation frameworks for large-scale LLM performance.
• Create scalable map-building workflows.

Skills

Computer vision

3D geometry

Machine learning

Autonomy software

Real-time software

Embedded software

C++

Python

AI tooling

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

CUDA

gRPC

FlatBuffers

Protocol Buffers

Claude CLI

Cursor

Job description

Job Requisition ID

JR2019727

Job Category

Engineering

Time Type

Full time

Nvidia DRIVE platform offers solutions to build safe, scalable, AI-enabled Autonomous Vehicles. The end-to-end full stack platform spans from in-car supercomputers to cloud-scale training and simulation. Our goal is to ship cars that continuously learn and improve, bringing the future of self-driving to today’s roads.

We are looking for passionate, AI-powered, engineers for the DRIVE Mapping team. Maps play important roles in localization, routing, and navigation. Maps offer redundancy for live sensor perceptions increasing the safety of the vehicle. In this role, you will help deliver the SD maps to all in-car consumers in the most efficient way. We are seeking the best engineers motivated about solving complex problems for self-driving cars with a background in software design, embedded software, working on real-time software and operating systems. Are you interested in inventing human level AI for navigation in the unconstrained world under any conditions? If so, join us!

What You'll Be Doing

• 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 LLM's
• Analyze and fine-tune SOTA pretrained models on domain specific datasets
• Build automated map content analysis in Python, JavaScript or TypeScript
• Create scalable and distributed map-building workflows

What We Need To See

• 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 tools like Claude CLI, Cursor, and other advanced code assistants
• Strong prompt-crafting skills: knows how to break problems down, provide context, and iterate with AI to reach robust solutions
• Passion for robotics and autonomous vehicles

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Prior experience with any navigation maps such as NDS.Live, Open Street Maps (OSM) etc.
• Software development on embedded or automotive platforms.
• Knowledge of gRPC, Flat Buffers and Protocol Buffers
• Experience with GPGPU programming (CUDA)

We believe, realizing self-driving vehicles will be a defining contribution of our generation which can reduce ~1.25 million deaths per year world-wide due to road traffic accidents. We have the funding and the scale, but we need your help on our team. NVIDIA is widely recognized as one of the best places to work. You are invited to do your life's best work and get surrounded by some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world!

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3, and 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until August 10, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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