Senior Software Engineer - Applied Research in Robotics

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Applied Research in Robotics to research, prototype, and optimize robotics solutions that use NVIDIA’s Programmable Vision Accelerator (PVA), a power-efficient, deterministic VLIW/SIMD processor used across NVIDIA DRIVE, Jetson, and IGX platforms. In this role, you will identify high-impact robotics workloads and map them to efficient execution on the NVIDIA’s Programmable Vision Accelerator, or PVA.

What you'll do

• Research and analyze end-to-end robotics software stacks to discover, characterize, and prioritize high-impact workloads that can be accelerated on PVA
• Design, implement, test, and optimize PVA operators for robotics workloads, including end-to-end integration into real robotics pipelines
• Work across camera, RADAR, LiDAR, IMU, perception, planning, and actuator paths to understand algorithmic requirements, memory behavior, timing constraints
• Collaborate with robotics, hardware architecture, compiler, system software, sensor, and platform teams to define acceleration strategies and interfaces
• Support internal and external teams developing and optimizing robotics algorithms on PVA

What you need

• 5–9 yrs of experience
• Research
• Data structures
• C++
• Embedded C
• C
• Performance testing
• B.Sc or PhD or B.Tech or B.E.

Good to have

• Computer vision
• Linux