Senior Software Engineer, Metrics and Evaluation - Autonomous Vehicles

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Research & Development • $148,000 PA - $287,500 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

NVIDIA's Planning and Control team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to focus on metrics and evaluation for autonomous vehicles. Responsibilities include defining and developing metrics for rapid debugging and testing of AV software, building data-driven evaluation products using on-road analysis and simulation, collaborating with cross-functional teams (ML engineers, roboticists), and developing software testing strategies. The role requires creativity and inventiveness to solve open-ended problems in this rapidly evolving field. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software engineering, data science, and experiment design, with proficiency in Python and relevant libraries.
Must have:
  • 5+ years software engineering experience
  • Proficient in Python (Pandas, NumPy, SciPy)
  • Experience in data science and experiment design
  • Familiarity with GIT and Linux
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Good to have:
  • Experience with AV robotics systems
  • Experience developing on-board planning algorithms
  • Familiarity with C++
  • Experience with large monorepo and Bazel
  • Knowledge of vehicle simulation and path planning
Perks:
  • Competitive salary
  • Comprehensive benefits package

Job Details

Want to join a fun, creative company that is on the cutting edge of amazing technologies? NVIDIA is developing groundbreaking solutions in some of the world’s most exciting technology areas including Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning and Autonomous Vehicles. We are looking for an experienced engineer to join our Planning and Control team to work on metrics and evaluation. In this role you will enable rapid planner and controller algorithm development by providing critical evaluation products. You will develop novel evaluation methodologies and the metrics needed to power them. This is an open-ended and unsolved space which requires creativity and inventiveness.

What you will be doing:

  • Define and develop metrics that enable rapid debugging, testing, and evaluation of our Autonomous Vehicle software.

  • Build compelling, data driven evaluation products by combining on-road driving analysis, large scale simulation, models, metrics and dashboards.

  • Collaborate with machine learning engineers, infrastructure engineers and roboticists to develop novel solutions to open-ended problems

  • Work with the Planning & Control team to develop and drive software testing strategies

What we need to see:

  • BS, MS, or PhD or equivalent experience in electrical, mechanical, aerospace engineering, physics, computer science or similar fields

  • 5+ years experience working in software engineering, data science, and/or experiment design roles

  • Highly proficient in Python and associated libraries (Pandas, Numpy, Scipy, Matplotlib)

  • Familiarity programming with GIT in Linux (Ubuntu) or another Unix based system

  • Ability and enthusiasm to ramp up quickly on new technical domains

  • Ability to multitask and prioritize in a fast paced environment

  • Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

We would love to see a track-record of working on and shipping testing and evaluation products. We definitely want to hear from you if your background includes one or more of the following:

  • Experience developing on-board planning algorithms and developed metrics for autonomous vehicle robotics systems

  • Experience with evaluating precision and recall of performance metrics

  • Familiarity with C++

  • Experience with working in a large monorepo and with Bazel.

  • Prior knowledge about vehicle simulation, path planning, vehicle control, Drive-by-Wire systems, and autonomous vehicles.

With highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology industry's most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working with us and our product lines are growing fast in some of the hottest fields such as virtual reality, deep learning, artificial intelligence, graphics virtualization, photo realistic rendering and more. Come join us at NVIDIA!

The base salary range is 148,000 USD - 287,500 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits. NVIDIA accepts applications on an ongoing basis.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) 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.

Similar Jobs

Microsoft - Research Intern - Training-Time Provenance (Data Dignity)

Microsoft

Mountain View, California, United States (On-Site)
3 Months ago
NVIDIA - Senior Deep Learning Research Engineer, Advanced AI Systems

NVIDIA

Santa Clara, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Digital Extremes - Senior Data Scientist

Digital Extremes

Ontario, Canada (Remote)
3 Months ago
NVIDIA - Performance Engineering Intern, Deep Learning and HPC - Summer 2025

NVIDIA

Santa Clara, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago
ByteDance - Research Scientist, Foundation Model, Speech & Audio

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
NVIDIA - AI Computing Architect Intern - 2025

NVIDIA

Shanghai, Shanghai, China (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Tesla - Algorithms Engineer, Autobidder (Electricity Markets/Energy Trading)

Tesla

North Holland, Netherlands (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Google - Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud Compute

Google

(On-Site)
4 Months ago
Google - Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning, YouTube

Google

Mountain View, California, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Riot Games - Technical Product Manager III - VALORANT, Cross-VALORANT Experience (XVX)

Riot Games

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (On-Site)
4 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Skill Jobs

ByteDance - Research Scientist in Foundation Models for Science - ByteDance Research

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
ByteDance - Backend Software Engineer

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Airlab Inc  - C++ & Python Programmer

Airlab Inc

Montreal, Quebec, Canada (On-Site)
9 Months ago
Zoox - Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Prediction & Behavior ML

Zoox

Boston, Massachusetts, United States (Hybrid)
5 Months ago
ByteDance - Machine Learning Engineer-Model Training Infrastructure (AML-Engine)

ByteDance

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Nextbrain - Computer Vision Engineer

Nextbrain

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
4 Months ago
NVIDIA - Senior Mask Layout Design Engineer

NVIDIA

Hsinchu, Hsinchu City, Taiwan (On-Site)
2 Months ago
ByteDance - Student Researcher (Doubao (Seed) - Foundation Model - Vision and Language) - 2025 Start (PhD)

ByteDance

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Match Group - Sr. Software Engineer, Generative AI

Match Group

Palo Alto, California, United States (Hybrid)
5 Months ago
Meta - Research Scientist Intern, Monetization AI (PhD)

Meta

London, England, United Kingdom (On-Site)
5 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Jobs in Santa Clara, California, United States

ION - Senior Technical Consultant - Endur

ION

Houston, Texas, United States (On-Site)
6 Months ago
Blizzard Entertainment - Senior Sofrware Engineer, Online - Diablo IV | Irvine, CA or Albany, NY

Blizzard Entertainment

Irvine, California, United States (Hybrid)
5 Months ago
Evolution - Part-time Game Presenter - Weekend/Weeknights Shifts, $20-25/hr. (Customer Service Alternative)

Evolution

Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
On Location - Coordinator, Product System Support (Stakeholder and Custom Groups)

On Location

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States (Hybrid)
2 Months ago
Trek - Service Manager

Trek

Atascocita, Texas, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Epic Games - QA Analyst

Epic Games

Cary, North Carolina, United States (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Nintendo - Contract - Associate Events Coordinator

Nintendo

Redmond, Washington, United States (Hybrid)
2 Months ago
Samsung Semiconductor - Senior Staff Engineer, DRAM

Samsung Semiconductor

San Jose, California, United States (Hybrid)
3 Months ago
Netflix - Software Engineer (L4) - CKG

Netflix

Los Angeles, California, United States (On-Site)
3 Months ago
ByteDance - Research Scientist Graduate (High-Performance Computing (Inference Optimization) - Vision AI Platform)

ByteDance

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Research & Development Jobs

Riot Games - Staff Data Scientist - Anti-Cheat

Riot Games

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (On-Site)
4 Months ago
ByteDance - NLP Researcher - AI Lab Research

ByteDance

Singapore (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Samsung Semiconductor - Intern, Data Parallel Programming Research Scientist

Samsung Semiconductor

San Jose, California, United States (Hybrid)
2 Months ago
NVIDIA - Physical Design Full Chip STA Engineer

NVIDIA

Yokne'am Illit, North District, Israel (On-Site)
1 Month ago
ByteDance - Senior Research Scientist, Foundation Model, Speech Understanding

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
NVIDIA - Silicon Product Definition Engineer

NVIDIA

Santa Clara, California, United States (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
NVIDIA - Senior Software Engineer - Robot Learning Platform

NVIDIA

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (On-Site)
1 Month ago
NVIDIA - Senior ASIC Design Engineer

NVIDIA

Massachusetts, United States (Hybrid)
2 Months ago
Krafton  - AI Quality Evaluator (Chinese Model)

Krafton

Seoul, South Korea (On-Site)
1 Month ago
NVIDIA - Chip Design Verification Engineer

NVIDIA

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel (On-Site)
2 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

About The Company

Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics, ignited the era of modern AI and is fueling the creation of the metaverse. NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing company with data-center-scale offerings that are reshaping industry.


Texas, United States (Remote)

Santa Clara, California, United States (On-Site)

Yokne'am Illit, North District, Israel (On-Site)

United Kingdom (Remote)

Yokne'am Illit, North District, Israel (On-Site)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Hybrid)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (On-Site)

Santa Clara, California, United States (Hybrid)

Taipei City, Taiwan (On-Site)

View All Jobs

Get notified when new jobs are added by NVIDIA

Level Up Your Career in Game Development!

Transform Your Passion into Profession with Our Comprehensive Courses for Aspiring Game Developers.

Job Common Plug