Senior AI Software Engineer - Autonomous Systems - CA, San Jose, United States
Originally posted 16 September 2026 by the employer.
Seeking a Senior AI Software Engineer with expertise in ROCm, CUDA, and TensorRT for autonomous systems.
About the role
This role involves designing and implementing AI-driven software solutions tailored for autonomous systems.
What you'll do
- Select and optimize AI models for autonomous applications, ensuring scalability, low latency, and real-time performance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI frameworks into software stacks, optimizing inference pipelines and model performance.
- Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in AI frameworks, foundation models, edge AI deployment, and autonomous systems integration.
What you'll need
- Proven experience designing and implementing solutions using AI frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, or ONNX Runtime.
- Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with model profiling, benchmarking, quantization, pruning, and distillation techniques to optimize AI models.
- Deep expertise in ROCm or CUDA programming, GPU kernel optimization, and GPU memory management for accelerating AI inference and training workloads.
- Expertise in profiling and analyzing end-to-end AI system performance using tools such as NVIDIA Nsight, TensorRT, Triton Inference Server.
- Experience deploying AI models within software stacks, including integration with ROS/ROS2, real-time systems, and edge AI hardware platforms (NVIDIA Jetson).
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineer, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related field.
Skills: AI models, autonomous systems, GPU-accelerated computing, ROCm, CUDA, TensorRT
This role has been open 27 days — well below the 56-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · GPU Software Stack
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Open roles in category
231
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Median days open
56 d
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Median salary
$236k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (231 roles · 20 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 52 | 231 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 405 | 6119 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 64 d | 56 d (+8 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: AI models, autonomous systems, GPU-accelerated computing, ROCm, CUDA, TensorRT
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 119 open roles · median 54 d
- AMD (this employer) · 52 open roles · median 64 d
- Qualcomm · 19 open roles · median 105 d
- Intel Corporation · 16 open roles · median 6 d
- Arm Holdings · 5 open roles · median 111 d
- d-Matrix · 2 open roles · median 119 d
How we counted: 231 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (GPU Software Stack) roles from 20 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.