Senior Software Engineer, AV Analysis Platform

NVIDIA

. Design and build evaluation and analysis tooling used by AV and ML engineers .

Posted 10/23/2026full-timeSanta Clara • California • United StatesSenior💰 $224,000 - $356,500 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and building evaluation and analysis tooling for AV and ML engineers, with a strong focus on system stability, performance, and operational debuggability. Proficient in collaborating across teams to deliver end-to-end user workflows while balancing feature development and production stability.

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Python ProgrammingDistributed Systems DesignAPI DevelopmentData Pipeline EngineeringObservability and Performance Profiling

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringWorkflow OrchestrationBackend ServicesData ContractsSchema EvolutionProtobufParquetLarge-Scale Analytical StorageProduction SystemsEvaluation Infrastructure

Soft Skills

CollaborationAgilityAdaptabilityProblem-SolvingDriving Technical Work

Tools & Technologies

CI PipelinesUser-Facing WorkflowsOperational DebuggabilityProduction MonitoringResource Usage Analysis

Industry Keywords

Self-Driving Car DevelopmentSimulation WorkflowsAnalysis WorkflowsHigh-Scale WorkloadsIncremental Migration

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsPythonGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and build evaluation and analysis tooling used by AV and ML engineers
Improve analyzer workflows, including onboarding, execution, qualification, and production observability
Build reliable services, APIs, CI pipelines, and UI-facing workflows across the stack
Define and evolve data contracts for analyzer outputs, including structured schemas, tabular data, time-series data, and metadata
Improve system stability, performance, traceability, alerting, and operational debuggability for high-scale workloads
Partner with AV engineering, data platform, infrastructure, and product teams to deliver end-to-end user workflows
Establish guardrails for analyzer rollout, including pre-merge validation, output-size controls, runtime/memory metrics, and production monitoring

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
12+ years of software engineering experience building production systems, developer tools, data platforms, or evaluation infrastructure
Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or similar languages
Experience designing distributed systems, workflow orchestration, APIs, backend services, or data pipelines
Ability to reason across systems software, data schemas, backend services, and user-facing tooling
Experience collaborating across teams and driving ambiguous technical work to completion
Ability to balance new feature development with production stability, maintainability, and user support, while demonstrating agility and adaptability in a fast paced environment
Experience with Protobuf, Parquet, schema evolution, data contracts, and large-scale analytical storage
Background with self-driving car development, simulation, evaluation, or analysis workflows
Experience with observability, performance profiling, resource usage analysis, and production reliability
Experience improving legacy systems through incremental migration, deprecation, and architecture cleanup

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