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Senior Software Engineer, World Model Systems Engineering - Autonomous Vehicles at NVIDIA

Department: Engineer, Sys SW

Compensation

$184,000 – $356,500/yr

Setup
On-site
Location
California
Type
Full-time
Level
senior
Posted

Description

NVIDIA is hiring a Systems Engineer for its Automotive Vehicles team to help productize perception, mapping, and localization solutions for autonomous vehicles. The role involves translating use cases and customer requirements into system requirements, defining performance budgets, planning validation, testing results, analyzing performance, building dashboards, and coordinating with hardware, safety, software, and product teams. Candidates need an engineering, physics, computer science, data science, or related degree or equivalent experience, at least 8 years of systems engineering experience, experience with world-model verification and validation, knowledge of VLMs, LLMs, and agentic workflows, data strategy, failure-analysis methods, and proficiency with SQL, Python, or C++. The base salary is 184,000–287,500 USD for Level 4 and 224,000–356,500 USD for Level 5, with equity and benefits; applications were accepted until September 2, 2026.

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