CareerPlan

Senior Synthetic Data Engineer - Autonomous Driving

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$184k–$288k2026-09-21 → 2026-11-13

Core

Design and develop simulation environments and tools to generate high-fidelity synthetic data (lidar, radar, camera) for training deep learning autonomous driving networks.

Role type

Senior Synthetic Data Engineer (Autonomous Driving)

Builds

Simulation-ready driving environments, world models, and synthetic sensor datasets for NVIDIA DRIVE.

Domain

Autonomous Driving / Computer Vision / Simulation

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, C++, Linux, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Synthetic Data Generation, Deep Learning, Linear Algebra, Geometry, Probability, Scalable Engineering Workflows

Preferred skills

NVIDIA NuRec, Cosmos, Neural Rendering, 3D Gaussian Splatting, NeRFs, Occupancy Networks, Lidar/Radar Simulation, Sim-to-Real Transfer

Technologies

NuRec, Cosmos, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Git, Linux

Responsibilities

Build and optimize tools for synthetic data generation; Develop lidar and radar sensor simulation workflows; Develop Cosmos world model for scene generation; Collect and match network requirements to synthetic data features; Develop dataset quality assessments; Supervise large-scale simulation pipelines; Debug cross-stack systems.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC