Senior Synthetic Data Engineer, Autonomous Driving Simulation

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Synthetic Data Engineer to join the DRIVE team in Santa Clara, CA. You will design and implement synthetic data pipelines, sensor simulations, and world models to advance autonomous driving research and production readiness.

You will collaborate across NuRec, Cosmos, and sensor simulation teams to push the limits of perception and planning systems while ensuring data quality and sim-to-real transfer.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in computer graphics, computer vision, autonomous driving, sensor simulation, or related software engineering roles.
• Strong Python and C++ skills, with production-quality Linux systems.
• Solid math foundation in linear algebra, geometry, probability.
• Experience with synthetic data annotations, formats, and evaluation workflows.
• Experience with ML tooling and translating network needs to data requirements.
• Experience with Git, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and distributed storage.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize tools to generate synthetic data for training DRIVE networks.
• Develop lidar and radar sensor simulation workflows and scene variation.
• Create Cosmos world models for controllable scenario generation and view synthesis.
• Collect network requirements and improve synthetic data capabilities to close gaps.
• Develop data quality assessments and sim-to-real transfer procedures.
• Profile large-scale NuRec, Cosmos, and sensor pipelines in data centers or cloud.
• Debug cross-stack systems spanning sensors, reconstruction, and GPU workloads.

Skills

Python

C++

Linux

Deep learning

Data structures

Education

B.S./M.S. in CS/EE

Tools

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Synthetic Data Engineer to join the DRIVE team in Santa Clara, CA. You will design and implement synthetic data pipelines, sensor simulations, and world models to advance autonomous driving research and production readiness.

You will collaborate across NuRec, Cosmos, and sensor simulation teams to push the limits of perception and planning systems while ensuring data quality and sim-to-real transfer.