Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Vehicle Perception

RESPONSIBILITIES

Lead / influence the design and development of perception foundation models for autonomous vehicles, unifying diverse sensor data for scalable 3D scene understanding

Design and develop advanced perception models for the autonomy stack, utilizing deep learning and large-scale data analysis.

Deploy scalable and efficient ML models on our autonomous vehicle platform.

Integrate modern technologies with rigorous safety standards while maintaining cost efficiency.

Significantly contribute to development of needed components for end-to-end ML training and deployment, from data strategy to optimization and validation.

Be a champion of the scientific method and critical thinking in inventing state-of-the-art deep learning solutions

Work in a high-velocity environment and employ agile development practices.

Collaborate closely with teams such as Perception, Motion Planning, Simulation, Infrastructure, and Tooling to drive unified solutions.

Work in a hybrid workspace, with the requirement to be present in our Nihonbashi (Japan), Palo Alto (California), or Ann Arbor (Michigan) offices three days per week.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

MS or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics or related quantitative fields, or equivalent industry experience.

Experience with Python, any major deep learning framework, and software engineering best practices

Experience with deep learning approaches such as supervised/unsupervised learning, transfer learning, multi-task learning, and/or deep reinforcement learning.

Experience covering machine learning workflows, data sampling and curation, pre-processing, model training, ablation studies, evaluation, deployment, and inference optimization.

Experience working with large-scale foundation models, including pretraining, multimodal architectures, self-supervised learning approaches.

Deep understanding of runtime complexity, distributed/cloud ML infrastructure, data pipeline architecture,resource-aware optimization.

Comfortable in writing C++ code to help integrate with our autonomous vehicle platform.

Strong leadership skills to influence others and the team's technical strategy.

Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate concepts clearly and precisely.