Senior Engineering Manager, L3 and L4 Testing - Autonomous Vehicles

Location: US, CA, Santa Clara, US, CA, Remote

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

The Automotive Vehicles team is searching for an experienced Senior Test Manager to help us bring NVIDIA's autonomous vehicle L3 and L4 solution out to the world. You will participate in a focused effort to develop and productize ground-breaking solutions that will redefine the world of transportation and the growing field of self-driving cars. You will work with hardworking and dedicated multi-functional engineering development teams across various vehicle subsystems to integrate their work into our AV SW platform, while achieving or exceeding all meaningful NVIDIA and automotive standards & guidelines. You'll find the work is exciting, fun, and relevant. We have deadlines, customers, and competition.

What you will be doing:

• Build novel design solutions and drive execution to improve the use of end to end Simulation at scale to evaluate Autonomous Vehicle performance through test architecture and tool development. 

• Lead multi-team efforts to streamline and automate the development of simulation tests from all aspects of creation, run, and analysis infrastructure. 

• Build reliable and scalable infrastructure and operations that can make it easy to scale and interact with simulation tests.

• Analyze complex technical issues and independently drive resolution.

• Guide technical aspects of development of test scenario creation and usability in Simulation.

• Work closely with developers and operational teams responsible for Simulation test creation to understand their needs and improve scalability and stability of the platform. 

• Collaborate across many teams, bridging needs of Autonomous Vehicle development and innovative end-to-end Simulation capabilities, applying your skills to understand and improve the modules that simulate real world driving.  

• Mentor and guide engineers, promoting a culture of technical excellence and collaborative problem solving.

What we need to see:

• BS (or equivalent experience), MS, or PhD in Engineering or Science field.

• 10+ overall years relevant experience building testing, infrastructure and test automation.

• 3+ years of extensive technical leadership experience across large-scale organizations. 

• Experience working on Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Autonomous Driving, Replay testing, or Simulation environments. 

• Substantial experience with Python/C++ in a software driven environment.

• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to drive alignment across large organizations.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Background with scaling the use of autonomous vehicles simulation frameworks.

• Experience with Bazel, Docker, Jenkins.

• Background with or knowledge of AI/ML systems, or a background in working with AI-native systems

• Experience in large-scale simulation for hardware or software validation of any robotics solution.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD.Applications for this job will be accepted at least until March 16, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

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