Senior Software Engineer, Rendering Infrastructure (AV Simulation)

Role Description

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Rendering Infrastructure team, you will build the systems that turn a GPU-accelerated, physically-based sensor simulator into a production platform — one that runs reproducibly, at cluster scale, and against production-representative autonomous vehicle interfaces. This is a systems role at the boundary of rendering, simulation, perception, and distributed infrastructure.

• Connect the renderer to AV software stacks and compute clusters.
• Reproduce real sensor scheduling and vehicle timing.
• Run many worlds concurrently on a single GPU.
• Make the runtime start fast and stay cheap across thousands of workers.
• Debug nondeterminism across a process boundary.
• Cut cold-start time by changing how a runtime is packaged.
• Reason about GPU memory and IPC.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a substantial portion focused on performance-critical systems software.
• Production proficiency in modern C++ (C++17/20) and working proficiency in Python.
• Strong Linux systems programming foundation.
• Depth in at least one of the two domains this role bridges: Robotics or GPU programming.
• Track record of designing, implementing, and debugging reliable distributed systems.
• Experience profiling and optimizing real systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Requirements

• Connect the renderer to AV software stacks and compute clusters.
• Integrate the renderer with learned driving models through Gymnasium-style environment APIs.
• Integrate the runtime with cloud and on-premises execution environments.
• Improve and validate deterministic execution.
• Reproduce real sensor scheduling and vehicle timing.
• Build perturbation mechanisms to stress-test downstream perception.
• Build memory-efficient multi-world and multi-scenario execution.
• Optimize GPU memory footprint and execution scheduling.
• Improve runtime deployment and asset delivery.
• Build distributed caches for textures and shader pipelines.
• Profile and reduce disk, network, and memory footprints.
• Partner with the 3D content and USD pipeline teams.
• Uphold high standards through technical design documents and code review.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, and Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Sickness and accident benefits.
• Life insurance.
• Paid vacation & holidays.
• Tuition assistance programs.
• Employee assistance program.
• GM vehicle discounts.

Compensation

The salary range for this role is $153,200 to $234,100. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.