Senior Software Engineer, Test - Autonomous Vehicles
Company: Nvidia
Location: US, CA, Santa Clara (Remote)
Salary: $152k - $241.5k per year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-09-21
About this role
The Automotive Vehicles team is searching for a creative and experienced Software Engineer to help us bring NVIDIA's autonomous vehicle solution out to the world. You will participate in a focused effort to develop and productize ground-breaking solutions that will redefine the world of transportation and the growing field of self-driving cars. You will work with hardworking and dedicated multi-functional engineering development teams across various vehicle subsystems to integrate their work into our AV SW platform, while achieving or exceeding all meaningful NVIDIA and automotive standards & guidelines. You'll find the work is exciting, fun, and relevant. We have deadlines, customers, and competition.
We are at the forefront of technology, transforming the future of transportation through our commitment to developing self-driving vehicles. As a senior software engineer, your primary role will be to build robust and scalable simulation infrastructure that will enable us to test and validate our self-driving technology over millions of virtual miles.
What you will be doing:
- Design, develop, improve and maintain metrics and test sets that support large-scale KPIs and performance measurements for autonomous driving systems.
- Collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, test engineering, and release to build and scale test solutions that address gaps in coverage and frameworks and mitigate risks to the project.
- Build and drive improvements to tools that automate and scale test sets through metrics, data quantity, quality, and diversity, enabling a culture of test-driven development across the company.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, promoting a culture of technical excellence and collaborative problem solving.
- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve system-level issues that affect the performance and reliability of our KPIs and simulation frameworks.
What we need to see:
- BS (or equivalent experience), MS, or PhD in Engineering or Science field....