Principal Systems Integration and Test Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

Full-time - Senior

Santa Clara, CA

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Principal Systems Integration and Test Engineer for Autonomous Vehicles at NVIDIA will play a crucial role in developing and productizing innovative solutions for self-driving cars. This position involves collaborating with a team of AI researchers and engineers to build a comprehensive autonomous vehicle stack while adhering to NVIDIA and automotive industry standards. The role is dynamic and engaging, focusing on real-world applications and customer needs in the rapidly evolving field of autonomous transportation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve existing software integration testing for NDAS.
• Triage, debug and create urgent fixes for complicated system integration issues.
• Develop and lead integration test frameworks, from framework design to easy test creation tooling and strategy for testing at scale for integration coverage.
• Partner with SIL & HIL development engineering to highlight tooling gaps in existing test frameworks and testing harnesses.
• Collaborate with NDAS development teams to bridge testing and evaluation gaps.
• Work with safety and V&V teams to enable test coverage for product release.

Requirements

• BS, MS, or PhD in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 15+ years experience in test engineering, robotics, large scale architecture management or systems engineering.
• Excellent programming skills in C++, C, and Python along with source control tools like Git and Perforce.
• Expertise in reviewing C++ software changes quickly and understanding the impact/risk of changes across the software stack.
• Proven expertise in crafting triage and debug tools using C++, C, and Python.
• Experience with Linux, QNX or other real-time operating systems, GPU, sensor technologies towards image processing, computer vision, and multimedia.
• Knowledge about system programming, threading, mutex, synchronization, communication, and parallel computing to build scalable applications.
• Strong debugging abilities in highly pipelined software and operating systems.
• Experience with integrating and debugging large scale software in Automotive Vehicle and/or Robotic Systems.
• Demonstrated experience in software integration across sophisticated software stacks and a drive to productization.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to drive test design alignment across multiple groups.
• 5+ years of experience working with CI/CD, VnV, and/or development testing programs.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with autonomous vehicles and/or machine learning.
• Knowledge of ROS-like middleware software and real-time operating systems.
• Experience with performance measurement tooling and profilers.
• Experience working with simulators and crafting both SIL & HIL tests.
• Experience with start-ups and/or early-stage products.

Benefits

• Equity options
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Flexible work hours
• Diversity and inclusion programs