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# Senior Software Engineer, Mapping - Autonomous Vehicles

- **Company:** NVIDIA Corporation
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $152,000.0 - $241,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Nvidia CUDA, Computer Programming, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Protocol Buffers, General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Grpc
- **Published:** August 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/NVIDIAExternalCareerSite/job/US-CA-Santa-Clara/Senior-Software-Engineer--Mapping---Autonomous-Vehicles_JR2019727

## About the Role

* 4+ years with BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
 * Background in computer vision, 3D geometry and machine learning
 * Heavy AI user for day-to-day development (design, coding, review, and testing)
 * Hands-on experience with tools like Claude CLI, Cursor, and other advanced code assistants
 * Strong prompt-crafting skills: knows how to break problems down, provide context, and iterate with AI to reach robust solutions
 * Passion for robotics and autonomous vehicles

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd:

 * Prior experience with any navigation maps such as NDS.Live, Open Street Maps (OSM) etc.
 * Software development on embedded or automotive platforms.
 * Knowledge of gRPC, Flat Buffers and Protocol Buffers
 * Experience with GPGPU programming (CUDA)



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