Senior Safety Architect - Autonomous Vehicles at Nvidia Corporation in Santa Clara, California

Job Description:

NVIDIA is widely considered to be a leader in autonomous drive technology employing some of the most innovative engineers and technologists. We are looking for a creative and expert Safety Architect to help us bring NVIDIA's safe autonomous vehicle technology out to the world. In this role, you will play a key part in ensuring the safety of autonomous driving products at scale, working on architecture, requirements, and evaluation in a multi-functional capacity.

You will work with hardworking and dedicated safety and SW engineering development teams to integrate their work into our autonomous DRIVE products, while achieving or exceeding all relevant NVIDIA and automotive standards & guidelines. You'll find the work is exciting, fun, and meaningful!

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead multi-functional initiatives to define safety architecture and requirements for autonomous vehicles
  
  


• Create and improve autonomous driving safety metrics in collaboration with experts in e.g. perception, deep learning, path planning and safety architecture
  
  


• Improve processes and tools for data-driven safety evaluation
  
  


• Share safety readiness results with collaborators and management
  
  

What We Need to See:

• MS or higher in Computer Science, Robotics or equivalent experience
  
  


• 8+ years of relevant industry experience
  
  


• A structured approach to systems and software development
  
  


• You have a proven record of successfully leading multi-functional efforts on architecture, design or verification.
  
  


• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  
  


• Strong written and verbal communication skills
  
  

Ways to Stand Out from the crowd:

• ADAS or autonomous vehicle systems
  
  


• Data science and statistics
  
  


• Machine Learning & Robotics
  
  


• V&V of safety-critical systems as well as sensor technologies, e.g. radar, lidar, camera
  
  


• System safety methodologies & practices (FMEA, FTA, STPA,..)
  
  


• Safety standards (ISO 26262, IEC 61508, UL4600, ISO21448,..)
  
  

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking 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 outstanding creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars. NVIDIA is looking for phenomenal people like you to help us accelerate the next wave of artificial intelligence.

The base salary range is 180,000 USD - 339,250 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits. NVIDIA accepts applications on an ongoing basis.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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