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[Remote] Principal Deep Learning Senior Engineer, End-To-End Autonomous Driving

Remote role Full-time Open position

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NVIDIA is seeking exceptional engineers to join their autonomous driving team to design, implement, and deploy cutting-edge end-to-end autonomous driving systems. The role involves building and optimizing large-scale models and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure performance and safety standards in production environments.

Responsibilities

  • Design and train innovative large-scale models—including generative, imitation, and reinforcement learning—to improve the planning and reasoning capabilities of our driving systems
  • Build, pre-train, and fine-tune LLM/VLM/VLA systems for deployment in real-world autonomous driving and robotics applications
  • Explore novel data generation and collection strategies to improve diversity and quality of training datasets
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy AI models in production environments, ensuring performance, safety, and reliability standards are met
  • Integrate machine learning models directly with vehicle firmware to deliver production-quality, safety-critical software

Skills

  • Hands-on experience building LLMs, VLMs, or VLAs from scratch or a proven track record as a top-tier coder passionate about autonomous systems
  • Deep understanding of modern deep learning architectures and optimization techniques
  • Proven record of deploying production-grade ML models for self-driving, robotics, or related fields at scale
  • Strong programming skills in Python and proficiency with major deep learning frameworks
  • Familiarity with C++ for model deployment and integration in safety-critical systems
  • Master's degree (or equivalent experience) with 13+ years of work experience in AV or related field or PhD with 11 years of work experience in AV or related field
  • Experience with LLM/VLM/VLA systems deployable to autonomous vehicles or general robotics
  • Publications, open-source contributions, or competition wins related to LLM/VLM/VLA systems
  • Deep understanding of behavior and motion planning in real-world AV applications
  • Experience building and training large-scale datasets and models
  • Proven ability to optimize algorithms for real-time performance in resource-constrained environments and strong track record of taking projects from concept to production deployment

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits

Company Overview

  • NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI. It was founded in 1993, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.nvidia.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • NVIDIA has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 448 in 2026, 1872 in 2025, 1354 in 2024, 976 in 2023, 835 in 2022, 601 in 2021, 529 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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