[Remote] Senior Manager, Abstraction Layer Engineering – Autonomous Platform

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NVIDIA is a leading technology company specializing in AI and autonomous systems. In this role, you will lead the architecture and development of software abstractions for autonomous driving, ensuring seamless integration with real-world vehicle and sensor systems while enhancing computational performance and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Lead the VAL and SAL teams, designing and developing optimal software abstractions and plugin frameworks to interface with real-world vehicle and sensor systems, consistently exceeding customer expectations
• Build efficient and user-friendly mechanisms to improve software integration across a wide range of vehicles and sensor configurations
• Work on core areas such as component abstraction layers, sensor and actuator interfacing, and inter-process data sharing and communication, enabling reliable and scalable autonomous driving solutions
• Solidify existing frameworks and software components, validating improvements through extensive real-world and synthetic testing to enhance computational performance and system utilization
• Perform in-vehicle tests, collect and analyze sensor and vehicle data, and support the completion of autonomous drive missions
• Develop unit tests and documentation for key features, evaluate software quality, and propose corrective actions in alignment with industry best practices
• Develop highly efficient, production-quality C++ code, demonstrating parallel computing capabilities through GPGPU (CUDA) to accelerate processing workloads
• Follow industry safety and quality standards, including MISRA and other automotive-grade software development practices

Skills

• MS or higher in computer engineering, computer science or related engineering fields (or equivalent experience)
• 12+ overall years of relevant industry experience and 8+ years of managing a team
• Excellent C and C++ programming skills
• Experience developing and debugging multithreaded/distributed applications like multimedia systems, game engines, etc
• Strong knowledge of programming and debugging techniques, especially for parallel and distributed architectures
• Strong knowledge on Linux, Android, and/or other real-time operating systems
• Experience with frameworks for robotics such as ROS and/or for multimedia such as GStreamer
• Thrive on writing low latency, highly performant code
• Phenomenal communication and analytical skills
• Self-motivated and a great teammate
• Understanding of embedded architectures and developing software in heterogeneous architectures, including GPUs
• Knowledge of automotive systems, notably ADAS applications, AUTOSAR and drive by wire systems
• Software development for modern OpenGL (Core Profile) and Linux
• Experience with version control systems GIT and build system like CMake/Bazel
• Be hands-on and work well within a team of algorithm, software and hardware engineers, with a significant level of detail orientation and a penchant for data organization and presentation

Benefits

• Equity
• Benefits

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