Gordon Grigor

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States31 yrs 4 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Expert in autonomous robotics and AI-based systems.
Proven leadership in developing self-driving car technologies.
Extensive experience in high-performance computing solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Robotics and Autonomous Vehicle technology development.

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Skills

Core Skills

RoboticsSoftware EngineeringAutonomous VehiclesProduct DevelopmentEmbedded SystemsDigital Media

Other Skills

Software DevelopmentAICloud ComputingKubernetesComputer VisionSensor FusionTegra PlatformsMarket StrategyAndroidLinuxOpenGL-ESOMX ILDevice DriversMobile DevicesProcessors

About

Problem solver working on complex high performance computing challenges of value, in diverse areas. Current focus is on autonomous robotics as a complete edge & cloud system with an iterative software development model. We are hiring.

Experience

31 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Nvidia

3 roles

VP, Robotics Software

Promoted

Oct 2019 – Nov 2025 · 6 yrs 1 mo

Engineering lead for the robotics platform software team at NVIDIA, matrix managing diverse globally distributed engineering teams.
We develop the Nova Orin sensing and compute platforms for real-time low-latency SW for AI based robotics, on Jetson, Isaac ROS for graphs of accelerated computing in ROS 2 and cloud-native robotics development workflows on Kubernetes for training, and simulation with aarch64 hardware in the loop.

RoboticsSoftware DevelopmentAICloud ComputingKubernetesSoftware Engineering

Senior Director, Autonomous Vehicles, Software

May 2016 – Oct 2019 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Engineering lead for NVIDIA’s self-driving-car product on Drive Pegasus AI Car Computing platforms. Managing engineering teams for multiple functional disciplines to develop Autonomous vehicles. Development includes Camera | RADAR | LIDAR sensor vehicle platforms, data collection, labeling, perception, path-planning, and vehicle control. Development of Level 2 ADAS features including AEB, TJA, LK using CNN’s, computer vision and tracking. All of this to develop and end-to-end AI computing product for self-driving-cars.

Autonomous VehiclesAIComputer VisionSensor FusionSoftware Engineering

Senior Director Software Engineering, Tegra

Apr 2012 – Apr 2016 · 4 yrs

Leading globally distributed engineering team to develop Tegra platforms and bring customer product to market.

Tegra PlatformsProduct DevelopmentMarket StrategySoftware Engineering

Marvell

VP, Mobile

Jan 2011 – Apr 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

VP of Marvell's Mobile BU.

Nvidia

2 roles

Senior Director, Tegra Sales

Mar 2010 – Dec 2010 · 9 mos

Worldwide phone segment sales for Tegra

Senior Director, Tegra Software

Apr 2006 – Mar 2010 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Software engineering lead for the Tegra 1 & Tegra 2 families of NVIDIA application processors for smartphones, and tablets. Managed Tegra software development from initial chip plan of record, through parallel hardware and software development, chip bring-up, chip qualification, silicon production, and production of devices to end consumers using Android, Linux, and Windows CE.

Ati

2 roles

Architect, Imageon Software

Promoted

May 2002 – Apr 2006 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Software architect for Imageon products specilizing in Digital Media (i.e. OpenGL-ES and OMX IL).

Software DevelopmentAndroidLinuxSoftware EngineeringEmbedded Systems

Architect, Radeon Software

May 1994 – Sep 2000 · 6 yrs 4 mos

Device DriversSoftware DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Vivace networks

Engineer, Software

Sep 2000 – May 2002 · 1 yr 8 mos

Software engineer for 1TB switching fabric, including device drivers, redundancy monitoring, equipment management, and fail-over / redundancy software. Included software development concurrent with silicon development, chip bring-up, and production qualification.

Digital MediaOpenGL-ESOMX ILSoftware Engineering