NVIDIA
Senior Sensor Fusion Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles
$184K–$356K
US, CA, Santa Clara +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, NV, Remote
US, WA, Redmond
US, WA, Seattle - Experience
- 8+ years overall, including at least 2+ years in the AV or robotics industry; 2+ years technically leading areas.
- Education
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related fields, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Develop and guide sensor-fusion systems that combine perception and map signals into real-time 3D world models for autonomous driving.
What you'll do
- Develop autonomous-driving functionality and real-time 3D world models using sensor and external inputs.
- Build enriched bird’s-eye-view models, fused obstacles, occupancy grids, and occlusion masks for urban and highway driving.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship, validate algorithms on real and synthetic data, and produce code and designs that meet automotive quality and safety standards.
What they ask for
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience, including at least 2+ years in the AV or robotics industry.
- 2+ years of experience technically leading areas.
- Software development experience on embedded or automotive platforms.
Nice to have
- Background in 3D computational geometry, computer vision, sensor fusion, localization, mapping, trajectory optimization, or state estimation algorithms.
- Experience developing real-time Computer Vision systems; strong API and framework design skills.
Pay
184,000 USD - 287,500 USD base salary for Level 4; 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD base salary for Level 5
Tools
perception DNN, camera, lidar, radar, Kalman filters, particle filters
AI focus
Develop autonomous-driving perception-fusion and world-modeling systems; the posting also describes the role as contributing to human-level AI for navigation.
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