# Senior Software Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

Self-driving cars need to detect the road’s course instantly, without relying on prior maps. We build an online mapping system that transforms raw sensor data into an accurate, live 3D model. This model shows lanes, boundaries, crosswalks, intersection structure, and traffic control semantics that the driving stack depends on. This is a software engineering role is central to that system. The algorithms are only as good as the software that runs them, so we need an engineer who obsesses over quality, performance, and architecture, and who can turn algorithmic ideas into safe, fast, maintainable code that runs in production vehicles on NVIDIA DRIVE Orin and Thor. The software you write will meet ASIL-B/D requirements and ship across L2++, L3, and L4 programs. You won’t be developing the algorithms from scratch, but you’ll need a strong grasp of them. You’ll work closely alongside algorithm engineers, and you need to understand what the code is doing to implement, optimize, and test it well. What you’ll be doing: Build and own core online mapping software operating in the car, from architecture through implementation to deployment. Write production C++ for real-time embedded systems,

- **Id**: 3828016
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nvidia-senior-software-engineer-autonomous-vehicles-2>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T18:56:18Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T15:40:05Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
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- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Smart Mobility, Servers & Data Center Hardware, Computer Components, AI Chips & Accelerators

## Company

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- **Name**: NVIDIA
- **Domain**: nvidia.com
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- **Size band**: 5000+
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- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

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- **Time to fill p50 days**: 41
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 152000
- **Max**: 241500
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 241500

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CUDA** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **NVIDIA Drive** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T18:56:18Z

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- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2,856 · green card filings: 799; Filings 12m: 2856

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- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 241500
- **Is top pay**: yes

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