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We are building a team that will help define the next generation of robotics acceleration across NVIDIA platforms, and we would love for you to join us.\nWe are looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Applied Research in Roboticsto research, prototype, and optimize robotics solutions that use NVIDIA’s Programmable Vision Accelerator (PVA), a power-efficient, deterministic VLIW/SIMD processor used across NVIDIA DRIVE, Jetson, and IGX platforms.\nIn this role, you will identify high-impact robotics workloads and map them to efficient execution on the NVIDIA’s Programmable Vision Accelerator, or PVA. You will work at the intersection of robotics systems, sensor and actuator processing, heterogeneous computing, and algorithm optimization. Your work will help improve latency, determinism, power efficiency, and throughput for real-time robotics systems.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing:\nResearch and analyze end-to-end robotics software stacks to discover, characterize, and prioritize high-impact workloads that can be accelerated on PVA.\n\nDesign, implement, test, and optimize PVA operators for robotics workloads, including end-to-end integration into real robotics pipelines.\n\nResearch parallelization and data movement strategies for mapping robotics algorithms onto PVA efficiently!\n\nWork across camera, RADAR, LiDAR, IMU, perception, planning, and actuator paths to understand algorithmic requirements, memory behavior, timing constraints, and real-time execution needs.\n\nBuild benchmarks, validation infrastructure, and technical mentorship for robotics teams adopting PVA acceleration!\n\nCollaborate with robotics, hardware architecture, compiler, system software, sensor, and platform teams to define acceleration strategies and interfaces.\n\nSupport internal and external teams developing and optimizing robotics algorithms on PVA.\n\nLeverage modern AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows to accelerate workload analysis, algorithm creation, benchmarking, and performance exploration.\n\nWrite high-quality, maintainable C/C++ code, performance tests, user documentation, and validation infrastructure for robotics acceleration workflows.\n\nWhat We Need To See:\nBS/MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.\n\n5+ years of experience in robotics software, embedded systems, accelerated computing, computer vision, sensor processing, perception systems, or related areas.\n\nStrong robotics algorithm knowledge, with practical understanding of perception, sensor fusion, control, planning, or actuator pipelines.\n\nStrong C/C++ programming skills, including low-level debugging, performance profiling, optimization, and production-quality software development.\n\nExperience analyzing algorithms and mapping workloads to heterogeneous hardware such as CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, SIMD/VLIW processors, or domain-specific accelerators.\n\nDeep understanding of embedded systems, SoC architecture, memory hierarchy, cache behavior, DMA, real-time scheduling, and performance bottlenecks.\n\nExperience with embedded Linux and/or QNX development environments.\n\nExperience with robotics middleware, ROS 2, real robot bring-up, sensor integration, or actuator/control paths.\n\nStrong communication, collaboration, analytical, and problem-solving skills in a fast-paced multi-functional environment.\n\nWays To Stand Out from the crowd:\nBackground with NVIDIA Jetson, DRIVE, IGX, ISSAC, VPI, NvMedia, or PVA.\n\nExperience building robotics applications that use CUDA or other accelerators for perception, planning, simulation, or real-time sensor processing.\n\nFamiliarity with safety-conscious development processes such as ISO 26262, IEC 61508, or similar standards.\n\nNVIDIAis widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking people in the world working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you. NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars. 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