💼 Full-Time Position

Principal Perception Engineer, Obstacle Foundation Models - Autonomous Vehicles

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NVIDIA
📍 Santa Clara, CA, United States
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Location
Santa Clara, United States
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Posted
June 06, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Intelligent machines powered by artificial intelligence—computers that can learn, reason, and interact with people—are transforming every industry. GPU-accelerated deep learning provides the foundation for machines to perceive, reason, and solve complex problems. NVIDIA GPUs run deep learning algorithms that simulate aspects of human intelligence, acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world.We are seeking an exceptional Principal Perception Engineer to lead the design and productization of NVIDIA’s next-generation autonomous driving perception stack. This is a senior individual contributor role with broad technical leadership. You will set the technical direction for 3D obstacle perception, drive cross-functional execution, and mentor other engineers, while remaining deeply hands-on with architecture, algorithms, and implementation, including modern transformer-based, multi-modal, and vision-language techniques where they a...