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Senior Synthetic Data Engineer - Autonomous Driving
Nvidia Corporation · 🇺🇸 5 Locations
Sponsorship verdict
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 2,374 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 394 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Nvidia Corporation paid sponsored hires in similar roles701 certified filings for “Engineer Senior Systems Software” (Software Developers) in CA: $173k–$214k, median $190k. Most were filed at wage level IV (82%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
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The US Department of Labor certified 2,374 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 394 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Autonomous vehicles are redefining the way we live, work, and play—creating safer and more efficient roads. These ground-breaking benefits require substantial computational horsepower and large-scale production software expertise. Tapping into decades-long experience in high-performance computing, imaging, and AI, NVIDIA has built a software-defined, end-to-end platform for the transportation industry that enables continuous improvement and deployment through over-the-air updates. It delivers everything needed to develop autonomous vehicles at scale. Simulation allows us to test an autonomous vehicle in nearly infinite conditions and scenarios. This happens before the vehicle reaches the road. It speeds up development and improves the system's reliability. NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec and Cosmos are starting a new chapter for autonomous-driving simulation. NuRec converts real-world sensor data into high-fidelity, simulation-ready driving environments. Cosmos world models generate, complete, and evaluate dynamic driving scenes, novel viewpoints, long-tail trajectories, and controlled scenario variations beyond the original sensor path. We seek a Senior Synthetic Data Engineer to join the NVIDIA DRIVE team and contribute to automotive innovation. In this important role, you will collaborate with technical leaders in autonomous driving, NuRec, Cosmos, and sensor simulation. Together, you will design and develop a simulation environment that pushes forward autonomous vehicle technology. What you'll be doing: • Build, implement, and optimize tools to generate synthetic data for training different deep learning DRIVE networks, including simulated lidar, radar, camera/RGB-D, bounding boxes, object tracks, world models, segmentation, depth, scene semantics, and sensor metadata. • Develop lidar and radar sensor simulation workflows that run against NuRec reconstructed driving worlds and Cosmos-generated environments, including sensor placement, calibration, material response, geometry handling, noise modeling, and scenario variation. • Develop Cosmos world model for better world generation, encompassing controllable scenario generation, novel view synthesis, trajectory extrapolation, scene completion, quality triage, regression detection, and controllability evaluation. • Collect perception, planning, and deep learning DRIVE network requirements and match them to current synthetic data and sensor simulation features. Develop new tools and improve performance when gaps are found. • Develop dataset quality assessments and synthetic-real comparison procedures that evaluate sensor realism, annotation quality, distribution coverage, scenario diversity, and sim-to-real transfer for autonomous driving. • Set up, profile, and supervise large-scale NuRec, Cosmos, and sensor simulation pipelines in data center or cloud environments. • Debug cross-stack systems spanning sensors, reconstruction models, world models, simulation runtime, GPU workloads, distributed data services, and downstream autonomous-driving workloads. What we need to see: • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Applied Math, Physics, or a related field (or equivalent experience). • 8+ years of experience in computer graphics, computer vision, autonomous driving, sensor simulation, neural rendering, or physically-based sensor modeling, synthetic data generation, or closely related software engineering roles. • Strong Python and C++ skills, with experience building, debugging, profiling, and maintaining production-quality systems on Linux. • Solid mathematical foundation in linear algebra, geometry, probability. • Familiarity with synthetic data annotations, data formats, dataset curation, data augmentation, and evaluation workflows