NVIDIA · 3 days ago
Principal System Integration Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$272K/yr - $426K/yr
15+ years expNVIDIA is reshaping the future of autonomous driving through its AV Integration Engineering team. The Principal Engineer will lead the architecture and engineering alignment for key automotive customer projects and collaborate with internal and external teams to develop scalable solutions for autonomous vehicles.
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Responsibilities
Lead, build, and drive the architecture and engineering alignment for key automotive customer projects through all phases, from bringup to production and post-production, using the DRIVE platform
Architect and build a seamless integration environment to amplify the scalability of our software solutions for our partners
Collaborate with senior leaders across the company to evolve the product initiatives, roadmaps, and processes. Drive innovation bringing in new technologies
Lead bring-up activities and provide deep technical guidance and strategies to resolve functional and system performance issues, working with internal and external partner teams
Collaborate with our global engineering teams in our US, APAC, and Europe locations to deploy the solution to our customers
Qualification
Required
BE/BS or MS in computer science, robotics, computer engineering, or equivalent experience
Understand the technological evolution in the self driving industry
15+ years of deep hands-on technical experience
Extensive strong technical leadership experience across large-scale organizations
Established proficiency in application development and scalability for autonomous machines, and familiarity with robotics or automotive related middleware frameworks
Broad and deep technical knowledge across software and hardware
Proven ability to lead teams across multiple hardware, software and business groups through design and implementation
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to influence large organizations in meaningful ways
Preferred
Familiar with automotive design processes and norms (e.g. ISO 26262, ASPICE), including in-vehicle testing, simulation and metrics development of autonomous driving systems
Software development experience on QNX or equivalent RTOS
Applied knowledge in resolving sophisticated, interrelated issues emanating from sensors to other embedded controllers on the vehicle and from interactions between applications
Knowledge of GPU programming such as OpenCL or CUDA and understanding of the NVIDIA DRIVE platform
Contributions to or ownership of open-source project and mentorship experience
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NVIDIA
NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.
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