Senior Applied Research Engineer, Accelerator Algorithms
BengaluruFull-time12–22 yrsPosted over a month ago
Leadership engineering role at Nvidia in Bengaluru. Needs 12+ years and a B.Sc, PhD or B.Tech.
About the role
We are seeking a Senior Applied Research Engineer, Accelerator Algorithms to drive applied research and architecture for algorithms on NVIDIA’s Programmable Vision Accelerator (PVA), a power-efficient, deterministic VLIW/SIMD processor used across NVIDIA DRIVE, Jetson, and IGX platforms.
What you'll do
- Research and characterize real-world AV and physical AI workloads to identify algorithms that map well to PVA
- Develop and optimize PVA algorithms using instruction-level parallelism, memory-aware scheduling, efficient data movement and vectorized execution
- Translate workload and algorithm insights into requirements for PVA hardware architecture, compilers, SDKs, profiling tools, and systems software
- Build prototypes, benchmarks, and performance models to evaluate PVA algorithm performance across current and future hardware architectures
- Leverage modern AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows to accelerate workload analysis, algorithm creation, benchmarking, and performance exploration
What you need
- Data structures
- Research
- Python
- C++
- Prototyping