Senior Software Safety Engineer, Halos - Autonomous Vehicles

NVIDIA is widely regarded as a leading company in technology. It has groundbreaking developments in High-Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. Our work enables exploration of new universes, enables outstanding creativity and discoveries that were once science fiction from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars and robotics.

NVIDIA Halos is the full-stack, comprehensive safety system that unifies autonomous machines architecture, AI models, chips, software, tools, and services to ensure the safe development and deployment of Physical AI. We are actively seeking a Senior SW Safety Engineer to join the Halos team and collaborate closely with other teams across NVIDIA working on autonomous vehicle and robotics safety.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Be pivotal in ensuring the safety of our AI-based autonomous system software.
• Engage with a diverse team of engineers across the entire DRIVE platform and related research unit. You will work closely with the groups handling automotive functional safety and safety of the intended functionality.
• Collaborate with the teams dedicated to robotics, humanoids, industry safety and other safety critical applications across NVIDIA.
• Apply your skills to guide the teams to specify, build, implement, and verify safety requirements across our software stack from drivers and acceleration libraries to AI-based technologies, including end-to-end models.
• Help NVIDIA team implementing our Product Life Cycle to integrate the process principles of AI safety.
• Your role includes engaging in customer interaction and international standardization activities related to safety of Artificial Intelligence.
• Support system safety activities including decomposition of safety requirements, system and component level build analysis (FTA, DFA, CCF, FMEA, etc.), and architectural safety analysis across hardware and software boundaries.
• Collaborate with external certification bodies, assessors, and regulators. You will present, defend, and justify safety arguments and evidence. This supports successful safety certification reviews related to functionality and AI.

What we need to see:

BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent experience.

12+ years of shown experience in Artificial Intelligence and SW safety related processes, methodologies, tools.

Experience in AI safety methods and tools (adaptability testing, uncertainty evaluation, out of distribution detection, and other related methods).

Familiarity with system software development and embedded platforms.

Strong written and verbal communication skills.