NVIDIA

Senior Validation Analyst - Autonomous Vehicles

US, CA, Santa Clara Full time

NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services! Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables outstanding creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars! NVIDIA is looking for phenomenal people like you to help us accelerate the next wave of artificial intelligence.

The autonomous vehicles verification and validation team is hiring a senior system software engineer to join the evaluation team, with the main focus on improving the evaluation framework to support metric evaluation of vehicle level behavior at scale.

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • As a member of our Autonomous Vehicles Verification & Validation team, you will be working on behavior analysis at scale, principally using driving logs, for metric evaluation and statistical analysis.

  • Improve the existing analytics framework and the data pipeline to support analysis of vehicle behavior on thousands of driving miles per day

  • Leverage cloud computing platforms for large scale metric evaluation and testing

  • You will collaborate with a diverse team of engineers encompassing the entire NVIDIA Automotive platform. As such, you should have a track record of working well across organizations

What We Need To See:

  • MS, or PhD degree in Data Science, Computer Science, or similar data analytics educational background, or equivalent experience

  • 8+ years of work-related experience

  • You demonstrate excellent Python, C/C++, software design and architecture skills

  • Excellent data analytics skills, including strong statistics fundamentals.

  • Familiarity with virtualization technologies and data pipelines

  • Experience with cloud computing

  • Ability to write user documentation and technical guides

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd:

  • Background in behavior analysis of autonomous vehicles

  • Experience with architecting and developing scalable pipelines and workflows to analyze large amount of driving data

  • Experience with testing autonomous driving software at the vehicle level

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until March 13, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

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