Senior Software Engineer - Autonomous Driving Simulation - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$152,000 - $287,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 14 October 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 15 October 2026.
Build and scale virtual environments for autonomous vehicle validation using Real2Sim and Sim2Real domain adaptation.
About the role
NVIDIA is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Simulation team to build and scale virtual environments for testing and validating the autonomous driving software stack. The role focuses on large-scale simulation and debugging of AV algorithms across scenarios involving diverse traffic patterns, road conditions, weather environments, and edge cases.
What you'll do
- Develop scalable simulation platforms and workflows for autonomous driving validation and training. - Work on Real2Sim and Sim2Real domain adaptation technologies to transform real-world driving incidents into simulation scenarios. - Contribute across a stack encompassing system software, distributed infrastructure, neural graphics and rendering, generative AI, synthetic data generation, and computer vision. - Optimize large-scale simulation workflows for performance, scalability, reliability, and production deployment. - Drive technology transfer into production products and contribute to open-source initiatives where applicable.
What you'll need
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field (or equivalent experience). - 5+ years of relevant autonomous vehicles industry experience. - Programming skills in Python, C/C++, PyTorch, and Linux/bash scripting. - Experience with infrastructure and engineering tools including Docker, Bazel, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, and distributed systems tooling. - Background in computer vision, deep learning, simulation systems, or related domains. - Experience in machine learning, large-scale systems, analytics, statistics, or applied mathematics.
Skills: autonomous driving simulation, scalable simulation platforms, distributed infrastructure, generative AI, large-scale distributed workloads
This role has been open 134 days — well above the 52-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
1010
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Median days open
52 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 (1010 roles · 89 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 291 | 1010 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 995 | 6298 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 51 d | 52 d (−1 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: autonomous driving simulation, scalable simulation platforms, distributed infrastructure, generative AI, large-scale distributed workloads
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 290 open roles · median 51 d
- Qualcomm · 65 open roles · median 50 d
- AMD · 58 open roles · median 24 d
- Graphcore · 50 open roles · median 98 d
- Intel Corporation · 48 open roles · median 13 d
- Cerebras · 35 open roles · median 88 d
How we counted: 1010 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 89 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 23 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.
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