NVIDIA

Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics

Manager,DeepLearning

$224–431k Santa Clara, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Manager, Deep Learning at NVIDIA. Skills: Deep Learning Engineering, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Inference Optimization, Model Deployment, Team Leadership. Lead and develop a team of deep learning engineers delivering inference optimization and model enablement solutions for automotive and robotics customers. Drive end-to-end technical engagements with OEM partners, owning scoping, resource allocation, and delivery of production-quality solutions”

What You'll Achieve.

deliver production-quality deep learning solutions for autonomous vehicles and robotics on edge hardware; deliver inference optimization and model enablement solutions for automotive and robotics customers; deliver under production constraints

Industry & Context.

Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics
Problems you'll solve

solve their toughest optimization challenges

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Master's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, 8+ years of overall experience with at least 5 years in deep learning model optimization, inference engineering, or neural network compilation, 4+ years of team leadership experience, Proven ability to manage concurrent technical customer engagements and deliver under production constraints, knowledge of current DL architectures and inference optimization toolchains (TensorRT or equivalent), Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage credibly with both OEM engineering leadership and deep technical ICs

Nice to Have

Experience leading DL optimization teams in the autonomous vehicle or robotics domain with direct OEM or Tier-1 engagement, Background in training pipeline optimization, curriculum design, or end-to-end autonomous driving architectures, Experience with ML compiler frameworks (TVM, MLIR, XLA, Triton) or inference runtime development, Familiarity with automotive safety standards (ISO 26262, SOTIF) and their implications for inference system design, Track record of building engineering teams in growing competitive talent markets and experience with Agentic AI frameworks, tools, and protocols like LangChain, LangGraph, MCP or equivalent experience

What You'll Do.

Lead and develop a team of deep learning engineers delivering inference optimization and model enablement solutions for automotive and robotics customers

Drive end-to-end technical engagements with OEM partners

and delivery of production-quality solutions

Set technical direction on how modern architectures (transformers

vision-language models

state space models) are optimized and deployed on GPU and SOC platforms

Partner with compiler

and hardware teams to connect customer workload patterns with platform capabilities and roadmap priorities

Collaborate with NVIDIA Research and internal deep learning teams to bring brand new techniques into production

Represent NVIDIA externally at partner reviews

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with compiler, runtime, and hardware teams; Collaborate with NVIDIA Research and internal deep learning teams; Engage directly with the world's leading automotive and robotics companies; Coordinate extensively with NVIDIA Research, hardware, and compiler teams

Communication Scope

Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage credibly with both OEM engineering leadership and deep technical ICs; Represent NVIDIA externally at partner reviews, conferences, and industry forums

Process & Methodology

managing concurrent technical customer engagements, delivery of production-quality solutions, scoping, resource allocation

Full Job Description

Join our Deep Learning Engineering team within NVIDIA's Tegra Solutions Engineering organization, where we deliver production-quality deep learning solutions for autonomous vehicles and robotics on edge hardware. As a key member of our team, you'll lead a group of highly skilled engineers. We work at the intersection of modern model architectures, compiler technology, and embedded deployment. Application areas include end-to-end autonomous driving, vision-language-action models, multi-camera perception, and robotic foundation models. You'll define and drive strategic technical initiatives, working directly with automotive OEMs and robotics partners to solve their toughest optimization challenges on NVIDIA DRIVE and Jetson platforms. You'll coordinate extensively with NVIDIA Research, hardware, and compiler teams to advance the state-of-the-art in deep learning for physical AI! **What you 'll be doing:** * Lead and develop a team of deep learning engineers delivering inference optimization and model enablement solutions for automotive and robotics customers. * Drive end-to-end technical engagements with OEM partners, owning scoping, resource allocation, and delivery of production-quality solutions. * Set technical direction on how modern architectures (transformers, vision-language models, state space models) are optimized and deployed on GPU and SOC platforms. * Partner with compiler, runtime, and hardware teams to connect customer workload patterns with platform capabilities and roadmap priorities. * Collaborate with NVIDIA Research and internal deep learning teams to bring brand new techniques into production! * Represent NVIDIA externally at partner reviews, conferences, and industry forums. **What we need to see:** * Master's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. * 8+ years of overall experience with at least 5 years in deep learning model optimization, inference engineering, or neural network compilatio

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