Senior Context Fusion AI Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

We are looking for a strong engineer to join the DRIVE Road Structure / Online Mapping / Context Fusion team. In this role, you will help craft and guide the future of our L3/L4 autonomous-driving solution by building a complete, learned 3D/4D world model that fuses navigation, ego-motion, perception, and sensor signals. You will work closely with perception, prediction, planning, and simulation teams to deliver a world representation that is complete, temporally consistent, uncertainty-aware, and robust enough to drive through the most challenging roads and intersections in L3/L4 autonomy level.

This role is central to our vision for AV: developing a shared multimodal scene representation that can jointly support road understanding, 3D object and occupancy perception, motion prediction, and route-conditioned planning. Are you interested in inventing human-level AI for navigation in the unconstrained world under any conditions? If so, join us!

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design and develop learning-based, multimodal sensor-fusion systems that transform synchronized sensor history, ego-motion, navigation context, and driving context into a unified spatiotemporal world representation.

• Build architectures that jointly reason over camera, LiDAR, radar, and vehicle-state inputs, with appropriate handling of calibration, synchronization, coordinate transforms, sensor latency, and uncertainty.

• Develop end-to-end and multi-task models that produce driving-relevant outputs from a shared scene representation, including; road graph elements such as lanes, boundaries, crosswalks, and traffic controls; semantic scene understanding; occupancy and free-space representations, including uncertain and occluded regions;

• Develop scalable multimodal fusion architectures, including Transformer-based early, late, and hierarchical fusion; BEV, point/voxel, and image-based representations; temporal context aggregation; and cross-modal attention.

• Create training, fine-tuning, and evaluation pipelines for large-scale multimodal datasets. Define multi-task objectives and metrics that balance perception quality, geometric consistency, prediction accuracy, latency, and safety-critical behavior.

• Investigate foundation-model approaches for autonomous driving, including vision-language models, multimodal pre-training, representation learning, and efficient deployment of learned world models.

• Work closely with perception, mapping, prediction, planning, simulation, data, and embedded-software teams to convert research advances into robust, production-quality AV systems.

• Develop systematic analysis and debugging tools for model failures, cross-sensor disagreement, long-tail scenarios, distribution shift, and regressions in closed-loop simulation and on-road evaluation.

What We Need To See:

• 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 is highly valued.

• 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.

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd:

• Experience building multi-task driving models that jointly predict perception, road structure, occupancy, motion, and/or trajectories from shared multimodal features.

• Experience with Transformer, VLM, or multimodal foundation-model architectures, including pre-training, fine-tuning, distillation, quantization, or efficient inference.

• Experience with BEV, point-cloud/voxel, neural scene representation, 3D reconstruction, occupancy-flow, or spatiotemporal world-model methods.

• Publications or open-source contributions in computer vision, robotics, machine learning, 3D perception, multimodal learning, or autonomous driving.

• Experience optimizing models for automotive-grade real-time deployment using NVIDIA GPUs, TensorRT, CUDA, or edge inference toolchains.

We believe that building self-driving vehicles will be a defining contribution of our generation (e.g. traffic accidents are responsible for ~1.25 million deaths per year world-wide). We have the funding and scale, but we need your help on our team. NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers with some of the most forward-thinking people in the world working here. If you're entrepreneurial and autonomous, we want to hear from you!

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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