CareerPlan

Senior Software Performance Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$224k2026-08-29 → 2026-11-10

Core

Optimizing latency and throughput for NVIDIA's end-to-end autonomous driving applications on multi-computer and heterogeneous hardware architectures.

Role type

Senior Software Performance Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Builds

NVIDIA's L2/L3/L4 autonomous driving solutions

Domain

Autonomous Vehicles / Embedded Systems / High-Performance Computing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

C++, CUDA/GPGPU programming, parallel architecture optimization, performance analysis, system software/OS knowledge, MISRA compliance

Preferred skills

Embedded architectures, real-time OS & scheduling, linear algebra, robotics algorithms, computer vision, deep learning architecture

Technologies

CUDA, ARM NEON, GPGPU, MISRA

Responsibilities

Develop and optimize latency/throughput for autonomous driving solutions; devise acceleration strategies for heterogeneous hardware; write efficient C++ code using algorithmic parallelism; collaborate with HW, product, OS, and safety teams.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC