Senior Computer Vision and Deep Learning Hardware Architect

China, Shanghai Until 9/13/2026 3+ years exp First posted July 15, 2026 Last posted July 15, 2026
Job description

We’re looking for an Autonomous Vehicle Performance Architecture Engineer. NVIDIA MMPLEX PVA team is designing the state-of-art programmable vision accelerator (PVA) which targets the automotive and robotic area. We are responsible for the architecture modeling, designing and verifying. We also deliver most high-performance/efficient computer vision applications and kernels to the world-wide customers.

What you'll be doing:

  • Work on delivering most efficient software on PVA for Autonomous Driving solutions

  • Analyze, prototype and optimize key applications for both existing and new architectures for PVA

  • Build model to predict performance, power and reliability on future architectures and propose and evaluate new architecture features

  • Be involved in crafting tools to analyze, simulate, validate and verify application performance and energy consumption

  • Collaborate with different teams to improve the PVA architecture to extend the state of the art in performance, efficiency, reliability and programmability

What we need to see: 

  • Master's or PhD (or equivalent experience)

  • 3+ years of experience equivalent experience in relevant discipline (CE, CS&E, CS, AI) 

  • Excellent C/C++ programming and software design skills

  • Strong background in computer architecture, high performance computing

  • Performance modelling, profiling, debug, and code optimization or architectural knowledge of CPU and DSP

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • DSP programming, performance analysis, modelling and optimization experience (GPU programming experience is a plus)

  • Autonomous vehicle software development experience

  • Expertise in characterizing and modeling system-level performance, executing comparison studies, and documenting and publishing results

  • Experience in deep learning, computer vision and self-driving car domain

About this role

Summary

Design and optimize vision hardware and architectures for autonomous vehicles.

Job title

Senior Computer Vision and Deep Learning Hardware Architect

Experience level

3+ years

Minimum experience

3+ years exp

Industry

automotive

Location requirements

Shanghai, China; remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

C++computer architectureperformance modelingdebugcode optimization

Preferred skills

DSP programmingGPU programmingautonomous vehicle developmentdeep learningsystem performance characterization

Specializations

computer architecturedeep learningperformance modelingoptimizationautonomous vehicles
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Shanghai, China

On-site City