- Robot type
- Robot AI and Software
- Location
- Santa ClaraCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Business Operations
- Posted
- Aug 27, 2026
Director, Engineering - Autonomous Vehicles
Job description
NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people. Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Come join the team and see how you can make a lasting impact on the world.
Job responsibilities
- Set the technical vision and architecture for NVIDIA’s next-generation autonomous driving stack, spanning both classical and learning-based approaches.
- Build and lead a high-performing organization of engineers and technical leaders working across Prediction, Decision Making, Planning, Control, and Safety.
- Define how classical safety-critical autonomy and learned driving systems work together within a unified production architecture.
- Drive the architecture for robust system-level safety, redundancy, fallback, and degraded-mode strategies.
- Lead the development and productionization of end-to-end, data-driven autonomous driving pipelines, from perception and reasoning through trajectory building and vehicle operation.
- Advance large-scale vision-language-action (VLA) / driving foundation models and their integration into production autonomous vehicles.
- Partner closely with research teams to translate breakthroughs in robotics, embodied AI, foundation models, and generative AI into production self-driving technology.
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