Director of Engineering - Autonomous Vehicles

What You’ll Be Doing

Lead, encourage, and develop world-class engineering and data teams distributed across Europe and the United States.

Architect and operationalize NVIDIA’s end-to-end data curation strategy, powering AI training, simulation, and continuous AV performance improvements.

Invent and deploy brand new algorithms that mine, classify, and surface the most valuable driving scenarios from massive real-world and simulated datasets.

Collaborate closely with NVIDIA research, AV perception, mapping, simulation, and fleet operations teams to ensure timely, high-fidelity data delivery.

Drive scale: build systems that operate reliably across billions of frames, thousands of edge cases, and diverse sensor configurations.

Champion data quality and metadata standards that accelerate development and improve safety and performance.

What We Need To See

• 15+ overall years of industry experience including 5+ years in technical leadership, director-level, or equivalent.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated success leading distributed engineering or data-focused teams.
• Deep understanding of algorithm development for data mining, filtering, clustering, or scenario discovery.
• Hands-on experience with VLMs, LLMs, or multimodal AI systems applied to perception, data triage, or automated labeling.
• Prior experience in the autonomous vehicle ecosystem — perception, mapping, robotics, ADAS/AD, or AV data workflows.
• Strong expertise in large-scale data processing, systems build, or machine learning pipelines.
• Strong communication, careful planning, and technical leadership capabilities.

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Hands-on experience with AV scenario mining, drive replay, or simulation feedback loops.
• Experience building automated data quality frameworks or annotation workflows for perception systems.
• Able to drive clarity and alignment across research, engineering, and product leadership.

Benefits

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Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 320,000 USD - 488,750 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.