What We Need to See
BS or MS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
15+ years of professional experience in software engineering with focus on distributed systems and data-intensive applications.
Proficiency in Go, Python, or Java, and experience operating across the full backend stack.
Deep experience building high-performance low-latency data systems: binary serialization, efficient data encoding, columnar data formats.
Strong understanding of distributed systems: concurrency, consistency tradeoffs, latency optimization, and compute-efficient design.
Ability to identify and fix performance bottlenecks through optimization across the stack, including redesigning protocols and data models.
Experience designing and implementing workflows across distributed systems.
Past success building foundational systems that multiple teams depend on, with high reliability and scale.
Communication skills to be able to translate nuanced system design to both technical and non-technical partners, and talk to users in their language.
Ability to lead cross-functional projects, influence without authority, and get work done across organizational boundaries.
Ways to Stand Out from the crowd
Experience building orchestration or workflow execution systems (e.g., Temporal.io, similar workflow engines)
Experience working with sensor data pipelines: ROS, MCAP, AV logs, Parquet, Apache Arrow, or similar domain formats
Understanding of AV & Robotics concepts such as kinematics, control systems, computer vision, motion planning, and/or neural networks
Experience improving legacy systems through incremental migration, deprecation, and architecture cleanup.
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Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary range for this position is 272,000 USD – 431,250 USD.
You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 6, 2026.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.
NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive 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.
