Senior Engineer - Perception Modeling

On our Perception team, you have the opportunity to work with world-class ML engineers and research scientists, whose mission is to make self‑driving vehicles a reality and to create a positive social impact. Our team works on the tech stack responsible for perceiving the dynamic scenarios, and further tracking and classifying objects around our robo‑taxi. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about Level 4 autonomous driving technology, excited by intellectual challenges, and interested in pursuing career growth with a fast-growing company.

• Lead the architecture and development of advanced perception systems, focusing on, large‑scale multi‑modal foundation models, and robust knowledge generalization across vehicle generations
• Architect and scale synthetic data generation and sensor simulation capabilities to tackle long‑tail edge cases, unseen off‑log scenarios, and closed‑loop evaluation
• Drive knowledge transfer from large teacher/foundation models to efficient onboard real‑time perception models via advanced distillation and post‑training techniques
• Productionize and deploy solutions onto autonomous vehicle fleets
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to senior and mid‑level engineers on the team

• 3+ years of experience in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field
• Masters or Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Robotics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or a related field; or equivalent industry experience
• In-depth understanding of common Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms
• Experience with designing, training, and analyzing neural networks for at least one of the following applications: object detection, semantic/instance segmentation, visual classification, motion/gesture recognition, sensor fusion, multitask learning, multi‑object tracking, and/or end‑to‑end perception
• Experience with deep learning frameworks such as Tensor Flow or Py Torch
• Fluency in Python, including standard scientific computing libraries and Python bindings development experience
• Advanced knowledge of software engineering principles including software design, source control management, build processes, code reviews, testing methods
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience mentoring and leading others

• Proven track record in designing, training, or fine‑tuning Foundation Models (e.g., Vision‑Language Models, Multimodal Transformers) for autonomous driving or robotic perception
• Deep expertise in World Models, generative video/lidar prediction, scene synthesis, and sensor simulation for closed‑loop evaluation
• Strong experience with Knowledge Distillation and model compression techniques to transfer capability from large offline teacher models to lightweight edge deployments
• Demonstrated experience with Synthetic Data Generation (SDG) and multi‑modal automated labeling systems to scale training data quality and volume
• Publications in premier computer vision or machine learning conferences (e.g., CVPR, ICML, NeurIPS, ICCV, ECCV)

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