Senior Software Engineer, Mapping - Autonomous Vehicles

What you'll do

• Design and develop map-based driving algorithms, provider architecture, health monitors, and data fusion with perception.
• Develop efficient in-vehicle C++ code and integrate algorithmic solutions into NVIDIA AV.
• Build graph-focused transformer models, LLM evaluation and fine-tuning workflows, and automated map analysis and map-building systems.

What they ask for

• 4+ years with BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Background in computer vision, 3D geometry, and machine learning.
• Day-to-day use of AI tools for development; hands-on experience with code assistants such as Claude CLI and Cursor.
• Strong prompt-crafting skills and passion for robotics and autonomous vehicles.

Nice to have

• Prior experience with navigation maps such as NDS.Live or Open Street Maps (OSM); embedded or automotive software development.
• Knowledge of gRPC, Flat Buffers, Protocol Buffers, or CUDA.

Pay

152,000 USD - 241,500 USD (base salary, Level 3); 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD (base salary, Level 4)

Tools

C++14, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Claude CLI, Cursor, gRPC, CUDA

AI focus

Uses AI tools in day-to-day software development and develops graph transformer models; evaluates and fine-tunes pretrained LLMs for domain-specific datasets.