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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