Senior Systems Engineer: Autonomous Vehicle Perception & Localization

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

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Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Systems Engineer for the Automotive Vehicles team to advance perception, mapping and localization solutions for autonomous vehicles. You will translate use cases into system requirements, allocate performance budgets, and design validation tests while working with hardware, safety and software teams to deliver world-class perception technology.

The role emphasizes leadership, data analysis and experience with VLMs/LLMs for automated triage, along with

Qualifications

• MS/PhD in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Data Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years systems engineering experience on complex systems and data analysis.
• Experience with verification/validation of world model stacks.
• Experience with VLMs, LLMs and agentic workflows for automated triage.
• Data strategy definition and failure analysis methodologies such as FTA/MTBF.
• Proficient in SQL and Python or C++; strong leadership and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Develop perception, mapping and localization system requirements from use cases and customer requirements.
• Perform analysis to define performance requirements and allocate budgets.
• Plan validation and formulate test cases and metrics to ensure compliance.
• Test performance and triage results; develop dashboards.
• Collaborate with hardware, safety, developers and product teams to build the right product.
• Identify innovative process improvements and build relationships across the organization.

Skills

Leadership

Interpersonal skills

System engineering

Data analysis

SQL

Python/C++

Education

MS or PhD in Engineering/CS/Physics/Data Science

Tools

SQL

Python

C++

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Systems Engineer for the Automotive Vehicles team to advance perception, mapping and localization solutions for autonomous vehicles. You will translate use cases into system requirements, allocate performance budgets, and design validation tests while working with hardware, safety and software teams to deliver world-class perception technology.

The role emphasizes leadership, data analysis and experience with VLMs/LLMs for automated triage, along with