Senior Software Performance Engineer - AV Platform

Senior Software Performance Engineer – Autonomous Vehicles

NVIDIA is looking for a senior engineer to develop, maintain and optimize the latency and throughput of NVIDIA’s L2/L3/L4 autonomous driving solutions, devise acceleration strategies, and collaborate with hardware, product, OS, and safety teams.

• Develop, maintain and optimize latency and throughput of NVIDIA’s L2/L3/L4 autonomous driving solutions.
• Devise acceleration strategies and patterns to improve software architecture and its efficiency on our computers with multiple heterogeneous hardware engines while meeting or exceeding product goals.
• Develop highly efficient product code in C++, making use of algorithmic parallelism offered by GPGPU programming (CUDA)/ARM NEON while following quality and safety standards such as defined by MISRA.
• Collaborate with HW, product, OS, and safety teams to design next‑gen products.

• MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Architecture, Electrical Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 12+ years of relevant professional experience working on autonomous vehicles software.
• Excellent C and C++ programming skills.
• Solid understanding of programming and debugging techniques, especially for parallel architectures.
• Good understanding of system software/operating systems and computer architecture.
• Experience with performance analysis, optimizations and benchmarking.
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills as this role might require significant interfacing with other teams within NVIDIA.

• Understanding of embedded architectures and real‑time operating systems & scheduling.
• Strong mathematical fundamentals, including linear algebra and numerical methods.
• Experience implementing algorithms in robotics, computer vision, and/or machine learning.
• Software development experience with CUDA/GPGPU or any data parallel architectures.
• Deep learning architecture/performance work on any HW accelerator, especially if on GPUs.

Base salary ranges are $224,000 – $356,500 for Level5 and $272,000 – $431,250 for Level
6. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate (including in hiring and promotion) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.