Senior World Model Systems Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 356,500; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for World Model Systems Engineering in Santa Clara, CA, focusing on autonomous vehicles. You will define system requirements from use cases, analyze performance budgets, plan validation, and develop dashboards while collaborating across hardware, safety, and product teams.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in systems engineering, strong leadership, experience with world model verification, data strategy, and proficiency in SQL and Python or C++.

Qualifications

• MS, or PhD in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Data Science or another related field (or equivalent experience)
• 8+ years systems engineering experience on complex systems, systems analysis (e.g. error budget creation, modeling of scenarios), data analysis, and statistical analysis
• Experience with verification and validation of world model stacks
• Data strategy definition
• Understanding of failure analysis methodologies such as Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and MTBF decomposition
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to drive alignment across large organizations
• Proficiency with SQL and Python or C++

Responsibilities

• Develop perception, mapping and localization system requirements from use cases and customer requirements
• Perform analysis to define performance requirements and allocate performance budgets
• Plan validation and formulate test cases and critical metrics to ensure compliance with requirements
• Perform analysis and develop dashboards
• Work closely with hardware engineering, safety, developers and product teams to ensure we build the right product
• Find innovative solutions to constantly improve our processes
• Establish relationships with all relevant partners across the organization

Skills

Systems engineering

Leadership

SQL

Python or C++

Data analysis

Verification and validation

Education

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

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for World Model Systems Engineering in Santa Clara, CA, focusing on autonomous vehicles. You will define system requirements from use cases, analyze performance budgets, plan validation, and develop dashboards while collaborating across hardware, safety, and product teams.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in systems engineering, strong leadership, experience with world model verification, data strategy, and proficiency in SQL and Python or C++.