- Robot type
- Robot AI and Software
- Location
- Santa ClaraCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Business Operations
- Posted
- Aug 4, 2026
Senior Research Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles
Job description
The position will aid fundamental research with the freedom and bandwidth to conduct ground-breaking publishable research. At the same time, you will also have the opportunity to impact products and collaborate with teams that focus on AI products based on CUDA, physically-based simulation, graphics, natural language processing, autonomous driving, HW optimization, robotics, healthcare, and many more. NVIDIA has an open and nurturing atmosphere for research that encourages collaboration.
Job responsibilities
- Develop large-scale supervised learning and reinforcement learning training frameworks to support multi-modal foundation models for AVs capable of running on thousands of GPUs;
- Optimize GPU and cluster utilization for efficient model training and fine-tuning on massive datasets;
- Implement scalable data loaders and preprocessors tailored for multimodal datasets, including videos, text, and sensor data;
- Build and optimize simulation infrastructure (based on GPU-accelerated simulators) to support the training of driving policies for AVs at scale;
- Collaborate with researchers to integrate cutting-edge model architectures into scalable training pipelines.
- Develop sim-to-real transfer pipelines and work closely with the AV product team to deploy to real-world cars;
- Propose scalable solutions that combine LLMs with policy learning.
- Apply reinforcement learning to finetune multimodal LLMs.
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