$184,000 - $356,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 18 September 2026 by the employer — open 1 day.
About the role
This role involves building a complete, learned 3D/4D world model that fuses navigation, ego-motion, perception, and sensor signals for L3/L4 autonomous-driving solutions.
What you'll do
- Design and develop learning-based, multimodal sensor-fusion systems for a unified spatiotemporal world representation.
- Build architectures that jointly reason over camera, LiDAR, radar, and vehicle-state inputs.
- Develop end-to-end and multi-task models that produce driving-relevant outputs from a shared scene representation.
- Develop scalable multimodal fusion architectures, including Transformer-based early, late, and hierarchical fusion.
- Create training, fine-tuning, and evaluation pipelines for large-scale multimodal datasets.
- Investigate foundation-model approaches for autonomous driving, including vision-language models and multimodal pre-training.
What you'll need
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience, with at least 2+ years in the AV or robotics industry and 2+ years of leadership experience in a technically area.
- Strong experience developing production-quality sensor-fusion, perception, state-estimation, or autonomous-driving systems.
- Demonstrated experience with learning-based multimodal perception or fusion involving two or more cameras, LiDAR, radar, map, navigation, and ego-motion signals.
- Solid understanding of 3D geometry, coordinate frames, calibration, temporal synchronization, ego-motion compensation, tracking, uncertainty estimation, and sensor failure modes.
- Experience with deep-learning methods for 3D perception, lego-context scene representation, occupancy/occlusion prediction, semantic segmentation, object detection/tracking, motion prediction, or planning.
- Strong C++ and Python programming skills, with hands-on experience developing, training, and optimizing deep-learning models in PyTorch. Experience with CUDA, distributed training, mixed-precision techniques, and efficient GPU inference using NVIDIA software and hardware.
- Experience with Transformer, VLM, or multimodal foundation-model architectures, including pre-training, fine-tuning, distillation, quantization, or efficient inference.
- Experience training and evaluating models at scale, including distributed training, dataset curation, offline evaluation, simulation-based validation, and production monitoring.
- Ability to work across research and engineering boundaries: turn an ambiguous AV problem into measurable technical objectives, build the solution, and drive it to deployment.
Skills: L3/L4 autonomous-driving, multimodal sensor-fusion, deep-learning methods, Transformer-based, production-quality AV systems
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 65-day median for AI/ML Hardware Engineering roles.
AI/ML Hardware Engineering · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
518
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Median days open
65 d
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Median salary
$229k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (518 roles · 76 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 85 | 518 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 943 | 5796 · 143 employers |
| Median days open | 65 d | 65 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: L3/L4 autonomous-driving, multimodal sensor-fusion, deep-learning methods, Transformer-based, production-quality AV systems
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 106 open roles · median 97 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 85 open roles · median 65 d
- AMD · 43 open roles · median 60 d
- Micron Technology · 32 open roles · median 37 d
- Mobileye · 25 open roles · median 51 d
- Analog Devices · 14 open roles · median 22 d
How we counted: 518 open AI/ML Hardware Engineering (AI ML Hardware) roles from 76 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 Sept 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.