NVIDIA
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Perception - Autonomous Driving
$184K–$356K
US, CA, Santa Clara +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 10, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, CA, Remote - Experience
- PhD with 4+ years, MS with 6+ years, or BS (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience; 2+ years of technical leadership is a plus.
- Education
- PhD, MS, or BS (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
About the job
Develop and productize perception solutions for autonomous driving, focused on detecting and understanding traffic signals across diverse road environments.
What you'll do
- Design end-to-end perception and autonomous-driving solutions for traffic-signal detection across varied driving environments.
- Research and develop deep-learning models for traffic lights, signs, road markings, construction objects, text recognition, and related tasks.
- Improve solutions through data-driven development, simulation, and augmentation, then productize them to meet safety, latency, and software-robustness requirements.
What they ask for
- PhD with 4+ years, MS with 6+ years, or BS (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Hands-on experience developing deep learning and algorithms for real-world problems, and proficiency with deep-learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
- Experience in data-driven development and collaboration with data and ground truth teams.
- Strong programming skills in python and/or C++.
Nice to have
- 2+ years of technical leadership; expertise in generalizable camera-based perception for autonomous driving or robotics, or deploying DNN solutions to embedded platforms for real-time applications.
- Technical publications in leading conferences/journals; expertise with Visual Language Models, Transformers, BEV architectures, or modern traffic-signal perception techniques.
Pay
184,000 USD - 287,500 USD (base salary, Level 4); 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD (base salary, Level 5)
Tools
Artificial Intelligence, GPU Deep Learning, PyTorch, python, C++, Visual Language Models, Transformers, BEV architectures
AI focus
Applied research and development of deep-learning perception models for autonomous-driving traffic-signal understanding, with data-driven improvement and productization.
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