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Principal Deep Learning Engineer – Perception, Autonomous Driving

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $272,000–$272,000🗓 2026-03-18 → 2026-07-31

Core

Lead the architectural vision and development of state-of-the-art deep learning perception systems for autonomous vehicles, focusing on detection, segmentation, and tracking to enable superhuman environmental understanding.

Role type

Principal Deep Learning Engineer (Autonomous Driving Perception)

Builds

Production-grade deep learning features for NVIDIA DRIVE platform used by automakers and robotaxi companies

Domain

Autonomous driving, Computer Vision, Robotics

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Deep learning architecture design (Transformers, Few-Shot Learning), 3D obstacle detection, dense occupancy prediction, semantic/instance segmentation, multi-object tracking, data-centric AI strategy, Python, C++, PyTorch

Preferred skills

Edge compute deployment (NVIDIA TensorRT), model optimization and quantization, multi-modal sensor fusion (camera, lidar, radar), first-author publications at top-tier CV/ML conferences

Technologies

PyTorch, C++, Python, NVIDIA TensorRT, Transformers

Responsibilities

Architect and train modern deep learning models for perception tasks; drive end-to-end productization of perception models; identify and solve long-tail corner cases in driving environments; define data labeling guidelines and quality control metrics; mentor senior engineers and set the technical roadmap

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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