Drimva

NVIDIA

Senior Deep Reinforcement Learning Engineer - Autonomous Driving

$224K–$356K

US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026

Experience
12+ years in the related field.
Education
BS or higher in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

About the job

Develop and deploy reinforcement learning systems for autonomous-vehicle decision-making and planning, from scalable training and simulation through production hardware.

What you'll do

  • Build RL algorithms for autonomous-vehicle decision-making and planning; develop scalable training pipelines and simulation environments.
  • Integrate RL models with perception and planning teams, and benchmark against imitation-learning baselines in urban environments.
  • Optimize and deploy RL models to production-grade automotive hardware.

What they ask for

  • BS or higher in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 12+ years of experience in the related field.
  • Strong reinforcement learning background, including policy gradient methods (PPO, GRPO), actor-critic architectures, and on-policy and off-policy RL; experience with RL algorithms using PyTorch or TensorFlow.
  • C++ and Python development experience for real-time systems.

Nice to have

  • Background shipping autonomous-driving features or working in embodied AI.
  • Experience with generative models for policy representation or trajectory modeling, rollout-distribution training, compounding-error mitigation, or large-scale data flywheels.

Pay

224,000 USD - 356,500 USD (base salary)

Tools

PPO, GRPO, PyTorch, TensorFlow, C++, Python

AI focus

Develop, train, benchmark, integrate, optimize, and deploy deep reinforcement learning models for autonomous-vehicle decision-making and planning.

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First seen Oct 16, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)