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Senior Research Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

📍 Location
Santa Clara
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
June 20, 2026

About the Role

We are recruiting top research engineers in the Autonomous Vehicles Research team at NVIDIA with strong expertise in software engineering and in artificial intelligence topics, such as deep learning, reinforcement learning, and generative modeling. You must have strong programming skills, a solid track record of training deep learning models at scale, and a good mathematical foundation to analyze new AI algorithms. We focus on AI models for autonomous driving such as agent behavior models, end-to-end AV architectures, AI safety, closed-loop training approaches, and AV foundation models (VLMs, reasoning models, etc.). We will be publishing at top venues and working with the broader scientific community. Communicating with different teams and domain scientists in different areas is essential.


The position will aid fundamental research with the freedom and bandwidth to conduct ground-breaking publishable research. At the same time, you will also have the opportunity to im...

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