Senior Sensor Fusion Engineer – Autonomous Vehicles

NVIDIA

Senior Engineer for NVIDIA's autonomous driving solutions, focusing on sensor fusion and 3D mapping. Collaborate with perception and planning teams to improve AV technology.

Posted 5/4/2026full-timeSanta Clara • California, Nevada, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $184,000 - $356,500 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop core functionality for autonomous driving in all geographies based on the fusion of SOTA perception DNN and map signals.
Generate real-time 3D world model utilized by planning, incorporating a variety of inputs from sensors and external sources.
Enable HD mapless driving in complex urban scenarios by creating enriched BEV models of the world.
Enable L3 level autonomy in highway scenarios by creating accurate, reliable and safe models of the world from camera, lidar, radar perception and map signals.
Build fused static obstacles and occupancy grids and build occlusion masks to enrich AV scenarios.
Be a technology leader by providing the team guidance on approaches to be taken to solve the hardest of AV problems.
Be a hands-on collaborator with the team.
Mentoring strong engineers within the team.
Make sure our algorithms work well on large amounts of real and synthetic data, in a diverse range of environments and conditions.
Produce code and designs following automotive quality and safety standards.

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related fields or equivalent experience
8+ years of experience, with at least 2+ years in the AV or robotics industry
2+ years of experience technically leading areas
Passion for robotics and autonomous vehicles
Drive to learn new things and tackle meaningful problems
Outstanding communication and cross-team collaboration especially with multinational teams across the globe.
Independent and analytical software engineering skills
Software development experience on embedded or automotive platforms.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Eligible for equity and benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

DNN3D modelingsensor fusionHD mappingBEV modelsL3 autonomycamera perceptionlidarradarautomotive quality standards

Soft Skills

technology leadershipcollaborationmentoringcommunicationindependentanalytical thinkingproblem-solvingpassion for roboticsdrive to learncross-team collaboration