Nvidia Principal Applications Software Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles 

United States, California 

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What you'll be doing:

• Lead, build, and drive the application architecture and engineering alignment for key automotive customer projects through all phases, from pre-sales to production and post-production, using the DRIVE platform.

• Architect and build a seamless integration environment to amplify the scalability of our software solutions for our partners.

• Collaborate with senior leaders across the company to evolve the product initiatives, roadmaps, and processes. Drive innovation bringing in new technologies.

• Lead bring-up activities and provide deep technical guidance and strategies to resolve functional and system performance issues, working with internal and external partner teams.

• Collaborate with our global engineering teams in our US, APAC, and Europe locations to deploy the solution to our customers.

What we need to see:

• BE/BS or MS in computer science, robotics, computer engineering, or equivalent experience.

• Understand the technological evolution in the self driving industry.

• 15+ years of deep hands-on technical experience.

• Extensive strong technical leadership experience across large-scale organizations.

• Established proficiency in application development and scalability for autonomous machines, and familiarity with robotics or automotive related middleware frameworks.

• Broad and deep technical knowledge across software and hardware.

• Proven ability to lead teams across multiple hardware, software and business groups through design and implementation.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to influence large organizations in meaningful ways.

Ways to stand out from the crowd

• Familiar with automotive design processes and norms (e.g. ISO 26262, ASPICE), including in-vehicle testing, simulation and metrics development of autonomous driving systems.

• Software development experience on QNX or equivalent RTOS.

• Applied knowledge in resolving sophisticated, interrelated issues emanating from sensors to other embedded controllers on the vehicle and from interactions between applications.

• Knowledge of GPU programming such as OpenCL or CUDA and understanding of the NVIDIA DRIVE platform.

• Contributions to or ownership of open-source project and mentorship experience.