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Senior Synthetic Data Engineer - Autonomous Driving

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $184,000–$184,000🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-26

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 IC synthetic data engineer (autonomous driving simulation)

Builds

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

Domain

Autonomous driving, computer graphics, sensor simulation, neural rendering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, C++, Linux system engineering, linear algebra, geometry, probability, synthetic data generation, sensor simulation workflows, deep learning workflows, scalable engineering (Git, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD)

Preferred skills

NVIDIA NuRec, Cosmos, world foundation models, neural rendering, 3D Gaussian Splatting, NeRFs, occupancy networks, lidar/radar simulation (ray tracing, noise modeling), sim-to-real transfer

Technologies

Python, C++, Linux, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, NuRec, Cosmos

Responsibilities

Build and optimize tools for generating synthetic sensor data; Develop lidar and radar sensor simulation workflows; Develop Cosmos world model for scene generation and evaluation; Match network requirements to synthetic data features; Develop dataset quality assessments and sim-to-real comparison procedures; Supervise large-scale simulation pipelines in data centers or cloud; Debug cross-stack systems spanning sensors, models, and workloads

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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