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Principal Software Engineer, Vehicle Dynamics Simulation - AV
NVIDIA
US, CA, Santa Clara · On-site · relocation$20,667–32,583 gross/mofull-timeNVIDIA Careers (offices abroad)
At NVIDIA, we are advancing autonomous vehicle development through scalable simulation, AI, and thorough validation. Our Autonomous Vehicle Simulation team builds systems that help engineers develop, test, debug, and improve driving behavior before it reaches the road.
Responsibilities
- Be responsible for the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for vehicle dynamics simulation across highway, city, parking, active-safety, and low-speed workflows.
- Develop production-quality C++ interfaces for simplified, replay-based, and high-fidelity multibody models.
- Create scalable model-selection, parameter-identification, adaptation, and validation workflows for diverse vehicle platforms.
- Translate trajectory and control commands into time-aligned motion, state, and diagnostic outputs.
- Establish model parameters, software boundaries, regression metrics, compatibility practices, and release gates.
- Partner with planning and controls, parking, active safety, simulation reliability, synthetic data, and product teams.
- Set technical standards, mentor engineers, and supply hands-on through design, implementation, debugging, testing, and documentation.
- What we need to see
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 15+ years of relevant industry experience.
Languages
- Work format
- On-site
- Seniority
- Lead
- Posted
- 29 Aug 2026
- Last verified
- In the last 5 days
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