# Senior Software Engineer, Evaluation Flywheel — Autonomous Vehicles

Hiring organization: [NVIDIA](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/nvidia)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/05d6f9b7-b3ce-4e43-8522-9ac88dbf57c2

Listed on NVIDIA's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Salary: 224000 – 356500 USD per year

## Summary

Senior technical leadership role owning NVIDIA's autonomous vehicle evaluation infrastructure, responsible for designing and maintaining the metrics, datasets, and workflows that validate self-driving stack improvements. Suits experienced engineers comfortable driving cross-functional technical decisions end-to-end and building systems that scale evaluation velocity across teams.

_Our summary, not NVIDIA's wording._

## Skills named

Data Engineering, Python

## Required

- 12+ years building production software
- Experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or large-scale ML systems
- Deep expertise in ML/robotic system evaluation: metric design, golden dataset curation, precision/recall methodology
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Robotics, or related field (or equivalent)
- Strong Python and data engineering skills for production pipelines
- Independent execution and technical leadership across team boundaries
- Clear communication with engineers and senior leaders

## Nice to have

- Prior experience building an evaluation flywheel and demonstrating impact on model development velocity
- Closed-loop simulation evaluation for autonomous driving
- Experience applying LLMs or VLMs to evaluation or productionizing LLM infrastructure
- Track record of establishing trusted metrics across skeptical cross-functional teams

Apply on NVIDIA's site: https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NVIDIAExternalCareerSite/job/US-CA-Santa-Clara/Senior-Software-Engineer--Evaluation-Flywheel---Autonomous-Vehicles_JR2021751