Principal Software Engineer, Mapping - Autonomous Vehicles

NVIDIA
United States
Full timeUSD 272,000 - 431,250 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 15+ yearsSkills: ["Debugging","Analytical skills"]

Build planet-scale mapping systems for autonomous vehicles using crowdsourced perception data and multi-camera video. Develop 3D reconstruction, pose estimation, and multi-view geometry algorithms for large-scale road scene understanding, plus map fusion and change detection for noisy, dynamic environments. Create C++ production pipelines that turn fleet data into reliable map products and develop tools and metrics to evaluate accuracy, freshness, coverage, and downstream autonomy impact.

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Principal Software Engineer, Mapping - Autonomous Vehicles

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Job Summary

Build planet-scale mapping systems for autonomous vehicles using crowdsourced perception data and multi-camera video. Develop 3D reconstruction, pose estimation, and multi-view geometry algorithms for large-scale road scene understanding, plus map fusion and change detection for noisy, dynamic environments. Create C++ production pipelines that turn fleet data into reliable map products and develop tools and metrics to evaluate accuracy, freshness, coverage, and downstream autonomy impact.
Location: United States
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build scalable mapping systems using crowdsourced perception data and multi-camera video from a large vehicle fleet.
  • •Develop 3D reconstruction, structure-from-motion, pose estimation, and multi-view geometry algorithms for road scene understanding at scale.
  • •Build map fusion and change-detection methods for noisy, dynamic scenes with global consistency constraints.
  • •Create C++ production systems and offline pipelines to transform fleet data into reliable map products.
  • •Develop visualization, debugging, triage tools, and evaluation methods to measure map accuracy, freshness, coverage, consistency, and autonomy impact.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 272,000 - 431,250 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Strong programming skills in C++ and experience building production-quality software systems.
  • •Solid foundation in 3D computer vision and geometry, including multi-view geometry, structure-from-motion, SLAM, and pose estimation (or related areas).
  • •Experience working with large-scale sensor data such as camera video, perception outputs, vehicle poses, GPS/IMU signals, lidar, radar, or map data.
  • •Ability to reason about coordinate frames, calibration, uncertainty, optimization, geometric consistency, and error propagation.
  • •15+ years of experience; BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or related field (or equivalent experience).
Experience:15+ yearsAutonomous drivingComputer visionSensor fusionMappingSLAM
Education:
Skills:DebuggingAnalytical skills
Tech Stack:C++3D computer vision3D geometryMulti-view geometryStructure from motionSLAMPose estimationSensor fusionGPSIMULidarRadarMap data

Company Brief

NVIDIA
Designs and manufactures GPUs, AI accelerators, and system-on-chip products for gaming, data centers, professional visualization, and automotive markets, enabling advanced graphics, AI, and high-performance computing solutions worldwide.
Industry: Electronics Manufacturing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Santa Clara, United States
Founded: 1993
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