Senior Software Engineer, Mapping - Autonomous Vehicles

About the role

The NVIDIA DRIVE platform offers solutions to build safe, scalable, AI-enabled Autonomous Vehicles. The end-to-end full stack platform spans from in-car supercomputers to cloud-scale training and simulation. Our goal is to ship cars that continuously learn and improve, bringing the future of self-driving to today's roads.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop algorithms for map-based driving products
• Architecture design for map provider, health monitors and data fusion with perception
• Develop highly efficient in-vehicle code in C++14 or later
• Design and integrate algorithmic solutions into the core of NVIDIA AV
• Research and develop transformer based models tailored for graphs
• Implement evaluation frameworks to measure performance of large scale LLMs
• Analyze and fine-tune SOTA pretrained models on domain specific datasets
• Create scalable and distributed map-building workflows

Requirements

• 4+ years with BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Background in computer vision, 3D geometry and machine learning
• Heavy AI user for day-to-day development (design, coding, review, and testing)
• Hands-on experience with tools like Claude CLI, Cursor, and other advanced code assistants
• Strong prompt-crafting skills: knows how to break problems down, provide context, and iterate with AI to reach robust solutions
• Passion for robotics and autonomous vehicles

Qualifications

• Prior experience with any navigation maps such as NDS.Live, Open Street Maps (OSM) etc.
• Software development on embedded or automotive platforms
• Knowledge of gRPC, Flat Buffers and Protocol Buffers
• Experience with GPGPU programming (CUDA)

Skills

• AI user for day-to-day development
• Hands-on experience with tools like Claude CLI, Cursor, and other advanced code assistants
• Strong prompt-crafting skills
• Passion for robotics and autonomous vehicles

Benefits

• Base salary range: $152,000 - $241,500 for Level 3, and $184,000 - $287,500 for Level 4
• Eligible for equity and benefits

Pay

• Base salary determined based on location, experience, and similar positions

Schedule

• Applications accepted until June 14, 2026

Ways to stand out

• Prior experience with any navigation maps such as NDS.Live, Open Street Maps (OSM) etc.
• Software development on embedded or automotive platforms
• Knowledge of gRPC, Flat Buffers and Protocol Buffers
• Experience with GPGPU programming (CUDA)