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Robot type
Robot AI and Software
Location
Santa ClaraCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Sep 20, 2026
Full-time

Senior Synthetic Data Engineer - Autonomous Driving

Job description

Autonomous vehicles are redefining the way we live, work, and play—creating safer and more efficient roads. These ground-breaking benefits require substantial computational horsepower and large-scale production software expertise. Tapping into decades-long experience in high-performance computing, imaging, and AI, NVIDIA has built a software-defined, end-to-end platform for the transportation industry that enables continuous improvement and deployment through over-the-air updates. It delivers everything needed to develop autonomous vehicles at scale.

Simulation allows us to test an autonomous vehicle in nearly infinite conditions and scenarios.

Job responsibilities

  • Build, implement, and optimize tools to generate synthetic data for training different deep learning DRIVE networks, including simulated lidar, radar, camera/RGB-D, bounding boxes, object tracks, world models,…
  • Develop lidar and radar sensor simulation workflows that run against NuRec reconstructed driving worlds and Cosmos-generated environments, including sensor placement, calibration, material response, geometry handling,…
  • Develop Cosmos world model for better world generation, encompassing controllable scenario generation, novel view synthesis, trajectory extrapolation, scene completion, quality triage, regression detection, and…
  • Collect perception, planning, and deep learning DRIVE network requirements and match them to current synthetic data and sensor simulation features. Develop new tools and improve performance when gaps are found.
  • Develop dataset quality assessments and synthetic-real comparison procedures that evaluate sensor realism, annotation quality, distribution coverage, scenario diversity, and sim-to-real transfer for autonomous driving.
  • Set up, profile, and supervise large-scale NuRec, Cosmos, and sensor simulation pipelines in data center or cloud environments.
  • Debug cross-stack systems spanning sensors, reconstruction models, world models, simulation runtime, GPU workloads, distributed data services, and downstream autonomous-driving workloads.

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