# Senior Radar Perception Engineer, Obstacle Foundation Models - Autonomous Vehicles

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/0972a52e-68ce-4643-bbed-14f188fc438b

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

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Santa Clara, CA
- Salary: 224000 – 356500 USD per year

## Summary

NVIDIA is hiring a senior engineer to develop radar-based perception systems for autonomous vehicles, focusing on deep learning models that extract meaningful information from radar data and fuse it with camera and lidar inputs. This role suits someone with over a decade of production deep learning experience who can tackle the unique challenges of radar perception—like ghost targets and poor angular resolution—while collaborating across hardware, safety, and software teams.

_Our summary, not NVIDIA's wording._

## Skills named

C++, CUDA, Deep Learning, Python, PyTorch

## Required

- 12+ years developing deep learning-based perception or radar signal processing systems for real-world problems
- Proficiency in PyTorch and track record of taking models from prototype to production
- Strong Python and/or C++ programming skills
- Data-driven development experience collaborating with data and labeling teams on radar data strategy
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or equivalent experience

## Nice to have

- Experience designing and deploying radar-based or multi-modal perception for autonomous driving or robotics at scale
- Hands-on experience architecting and deploying DNN perception pipelines on embedded or real-time platforms with optimization for latency and memory
- Deep understanding of radar physics and digital signal processing (FMCW, beamforming, CFAR, micro-Doppler)
- Strong publication record or recognized contributions in deep learning, radar perception, or autonomous systems at leading conferences (CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, IROS)
- Experience with CUDA development and GPU-accelerated optimization for high-bandwidth radar data

Apply on NVIDIA's site: https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NVIDIAExternalCareerSite/job/US-CA-Santa-Clara/Senior-Radar-Perception-Engineer--Obstacle-Foundation-Models---Autonomous-Vehicles_JR2021077