Senior MLOps Engineer

Location: US, CA, Santa Clara

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Want to build the data infrastructure that powers autonomous driving at scale? NVIDIA is seeking a Senior MLOps Engineer to join our Autonomous Driving organization in Santa Clara, CA. This individual contributor will design and operate end‑to‑end data and ML pipelines for NVIDIA’s autonomous driving products!

The role builds and operates cloud pipelines that ingest, validate, process, and transform multimodal sensor data from camera, lidar, and radar into training, evaluation, and validation datasets. These pipelines enable NVIDIA’s AV program and customer‑facing autonomy features. Bring ownership, customer focus, and engineering judgment to scale systems and solve problems across teams.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Design, build, and operate data pipelines supporting NVIDIA’s autonomous driving technology from levels L2 through L4.

• Own architecture, implementation, and operations for cloud pipelines that ingest, process, label, and validate sensor data.

• Build observable MLOps systems for model training, ground truth generation, and continuous evaluation at AV scale.

• Translate customer and program requirements into production systems with perception, ML, data labeling, infrastructure, and product teams.

• Set technical direction, roadmaps, metrics, and operational benchmarks; deliver against program milestones.

• Build systems that deliver measurable value to internal and external AV customers.

• Contribute through design reviews, implementation, debugging, code reviews, and mentorship.

• Work across Python, C++, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and data platforms.

What We Need to See:

• Bachelor’s or equivalent experience, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field (or equivalent experience).

• 8+ years of engineering experience designing and delivering production distributed systems.

• Technical leadership as a senior individual contributor delivering large‑scale systems.

• Experience with MLOps, data pipelines, and cloud distributed systems.

• Proficiency in Python and C++ for system‑level and performance‑critical implementation.

• Experience operating end‑to‑end data or ML pipelines for reliability, scale, and observability.

• Prior experience in one or more of the following domains: Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, or GPU‑accelerated computing.

• Communication skills that align collaborators and drive execution across functions.

• A record of ownership, accountability, and customer‑focused engineering.

Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd:

• Experience with AV data platforms handling petabyte‑scale sensor data.

• Hands‑on contributions to production MLOps or data infrastructure.

• Experience with automotive or robotic systems, including real‑world sensor data pipelines.

• Background in distributed cloud systems, workflow orchestration, and large‑scale CI/CD.

• Familiarity with 3D geometry, perception pipelines, or data generation based on simulated environments.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5.Applications for this job will be accepted at least until August 10, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

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