Principal OEM Execution Lead, Autonomous Driving Solutions

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Lead NDAS execution with major OEMs across the full program lifecycle — from feature definition and technical alignment through vehicle integration, validation, launch, and production ramp — owning the coordinated…
• Translate OEM vehicle requirements and use cases into clear commitments for NVIDIA teams, while ensuring OEM partners understand product capabilities, constraints, assumptions, and the work required on their side;
• Drive multi-functional implementation across autonomous-driving features, systems, platform software, vehicle integration, functional safety, cybersecurity, validation, quality, release, and field engineering.
• Establish a rigorous operating cadence with actionable achievements, objective readiness metrics, risk and dependency management, decision logs, and clear paths for addressing customer concerns that block progress.
• Direct technical issue resolution across systems, safety, security, and development groups — determining root causes, clarifying ownership, surfacing tradeoffs, and ensuring lasting closure without slowing program…
• Represent overall program health and technical readiness in reviews with OEM engineering leaders and NVIDIA executives, communicating decisions, risks, recovery plans, and resource needs with clarity.
• Ensure lessons from each vehicle program feed back into the product, tooling, documentation, test infrastructure, and integration model to improve subsequent OEM programs.
• Develop leaders and strengthen a culture of ownership, transparency, engineering rigor, and customer dedication across the extended program team.