- Robot type
- Robot AI and Software
- Location
- Santa ClaraCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Artificial Intelligence
- Posted
- Aug 4, 2026
Senior Research Scientist - Autonomous Vehicles
Job description
We are now seeking a Sr Research Scientist for Autonomous Vehicles!
These are some of the exciting questions that the NVIDIA Autonomous Vehicle Research group is tackling. We bring together a diverse, interdisciplinary research team working on core topics in vehicle autonomy, including agent behavior models, end-to-end AV architectures, AI safety, closed-loop training approaches, and AV foundation models (VLMs, reasoning models, etc.). Our focus is on basic and applied research; lab members are encouraged to publish their work and open-source code as well as provide real-world impact by deploying technology within production systems.
Job responsibilities
- Designing and implementing cutting-edge techniques in the field of vehicle autonomy.
- Publish and present your original research, speak at conferences and events.
- Collaborate with other research team members, a diverse set of internal product teams, and external researchers.
- Have a broader impact through the transfer and/or open-source of the technology you've developed to relevant product groups.
- Collaborate closely with product teams to transfer research results into high-end, production-level systems.
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