Senior Applied Research Engineer, Accelerator Algorithms

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

• 12–22 yrs of experience
• Data structures
• Research
• Python
• C++
• Prototyping
• B.Sc or PhD or B.Tech or B.E.