NVIDIA is seeking an experienced Senior Test Manager for their Automotive Vehicles team to help bring their autonomous vehicle L3 and L4 solution to the market. The role involves leading multi-team efforts to develop simulation tests and infrastructure while collaborating with various engineering teams to enhance the autonomous vehicle platform.
Responsibilities:
- 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
Requirements:
- 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
- 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