Nvidia

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Perception - Autonomous Driving

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10 days ago
Santa Clara, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$184k - $357k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design end-to-end perception and autonomous-vehicle stack solutions for traffic signal detection across varied driving environments.
  • Develop deep-learning models for traffic-light detection, traffic-sign recognition, road-marking detection, construction-object detection, text recognition, and related traffic-signal tasks.
  • Develop generalizable perception approaches for diverse operational design domains and country or regional expansion.
  • Prioritize data collection, labeling, and ground-truth efforts with data teams to improve perception accuracy and labeling efficiency.
  • Use data simulation and augmentation to address extreme driving scenarios.
  • Productize perception solutions while meeting safety, latency, and software-robustness requirements.

Requirements

  • PhD with 4+ years, MS with 6+ years, or BS/equivalent experience with 8+ years of relevant experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Hands-on experience developing deep-learning models and algorithms for sophisticated real-world problems.
  • Proficiency with deep-learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
  • Experience with data-driven development and collaboration with data and ground-truth teams.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and/or C++.
  • Two or more years of technical leadership involving high technical and organizational complexity is a plus.
  • Expertise in autonomous-driving or robotics perception using camera-based deep learning is preferred.
  • Experience deploying DNN-based solutions to embedded platforms for real-time applications is preferred.
  • Technical publications in leading conferences or journals and expertise with Visual Language Models, Transformers, BEV architectures, and modern traffic-signal perception techniques are preferred.

Benefits

  • Eligible for equity and benefits.
  • Base salary varies by location, experience, and other objective job-related factors; the posting lists Level 4 and Level 5 salary ranges.
  • Applications will be accepted at least until November 3, 2026.

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About Nvidia

10,000+ employees

Nvidia designs and sells GPUs and accelerated computing platforms for data centers, AI/ML, graphics, gaming, and automotive, monetizing through hardware, software platforms (CUDA, AI frameworks), and systems like DGX and networking. Customers include cloud providers, enterprises, researchers, and OEMs. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ under NVDA.

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