Senior Software Performance Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

• Develop, maintain and optimize latency and throughput of NVIDIA’s L2/L3/L4 autonomous driving solutions.

• Devise acceleration strategies and patterns to improve software architecture and its efficiency on our computers with multiple heterogeneous hardware engines while meeting or exceeding product goals.

• Develop highly efficient product code in C++, making use of algorithmic parallelism offered by GPGPU programming (CUDA)/ARM NEON while following quality and safety standards such as defined by MISRA.

• Collaborate with HW, product, OS, and safety teams to design next-gen products.

• MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Architecture, Electrical Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience).

• 12+ years of relevant professional experience working on autonomous vehicles software.

• Excellent C and C++ programming skills.

• Solid understanding of programming and debugging techniques, especially for parallel architectures.

• Good understanding of system software/operating systems and computer architecture.

• Experience with performance analysis, optimizations and benchmarking.

• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills as this role might require significant interfacing with other teams within NVIDIA.

• Understanding of embedded architectures and real-time operating systems & scheduling.

• Strong mathematical fundamentals, including linear algebra and numerical methods.

• Experience implementing algorithms in robotics, computer vision, and/or machine learning.

• Software development experience with CUDA/GPGPU or any data parallel architectures.

• Deep learning architecture/performance work on any HW accelerator, especially if on GPUs.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5, and 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD for Level 6. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits .

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until August 17, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.