Director, Engineering - Autonomous Vehicles
Core
Define the technical vision and architecture for NVIDIA's next-generation autonomous driving stack, integrating classical safety systems with learning-based approaches to build a unified production platform.
Role type
Director-level technical leader (Engineering)
Builds
Next-generation autonomous driving architecture and production pipelines
Domain
Autonomous Vehicles / AI / Robotics
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Technical leadership, system architecture, classical autonomy (prediction, planning, control, safety), modern learning-based autonomy (end-to-end, foundation models), team building, cross-functional partnership
Preferred skills
Hybrid AV architecture experience, VLA frameworks, CUDA/GPU computing, patents/publications in robotics or embodied AI
Technologies
CUDA, GPU computing, end-to-end driving models, foundation models, VLA frameworks
Responsibilities
Set technical vision and architecture for the AV stack; Build and lead high-performing engineering organizations; Define integration of classical and learned systems; Drive system-level safety and redundancy strategies; Lead productionization of end-to-end driving pipelines; Partner with research to translate breakthroughs into production technology