Nvidia Principal Systems Engineer Replay Infrastructure - Autonomous Vehicles 

United States, California 

360056094

In order to deeply analyze and improve our Autonomous Vehicles behavior we need to build a well defined set of sophisticated micro services, tools and infrastructure that works with on-road logs and sensor data captured from vehicles at scale and on a continuous basis. These services and tools will enable AV engineers, algorithm developers, test engineers as well as product teams to measure and understand the comprehensive performance of AV systems built with complex ML models, planning and control systems, and heuristics. Incoming logs would represent immense variation in external conditions and inputs to the AV systems are complex and the outputs are often gradient (non-binary); with monitoring required over time and at various levels. We will rely on these services to be highly effective and user friendly so the users will be effectively focused on building AV that’s superior in the industry.

What you'll be doing:

• Architect and build scalable distributed services that will help analyze, evaluate, and understand AV behavior from on-road logs and sensor recordings

• Design interfaces, data models, and schemas to support log search and discovery of critical on-road events

• Collaborate with multiple AV teams to understand their requirements and use cases to build Replay based Cloud test infrastructure that improves productivity

• Define and Deliver rapid iterations of group's technical strategies and roadmaps for effective test management

• Define metrics and drive improvements based user feedback and metrics

• Partner with our AV and Infrastructure leadership to deliver a cohesive product to customers

What we need to see:

• You possess advanced programming skills to build distributed and compute systems, backend services, microservices and cloud technologies

• Ability to work optimally with multi-functional teams, principals and architects, across organizational boundaries

• Deep technical expertise in GoLang, Python, GraphQL, Temporal, Helm, Prometheus, Kafka, PostgreSQL

• Passion for building rich, customer-focused, developer centric applications that involved database, backend, job scheduling and orchestration

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to lead multi-functional efforts

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or equivalent experience

• 15+ years of relevant experience

• 12+ years of proven experience in performance and/or real-time software technical leadership roles in an agile software development environment

• 12+ years of demonstrated ability in debugging, performance analysis, and testing system design

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Highly proficient in simulation, AV/robotics stacks, software testing tools, infrastructure (cloud and on-prem), and user-productivity software

• Prior experience in working with large scale log replay of Autonomous vehicles stack in cloud and on target