Machine Learning Engineer - Perception

Machine Learning Engineer - Perception

Mountain View, CA

About us: Aeva’s mission is to bring the next wave of perception to a broad range of applications from automated driving to industrial robotics, consumer electronics, consumer health, security, and beyond. Aeva is transforming autonomy with its groundbreaking sensing and perception technology that integrates all key LiDAR components onto a silicon photonics chip in a compact module. Aeva 4D LiDAR sensors uniquely detect instant velocity in addition to 3D position, allowing autonomous devices like vehicles and robots to make more intelligent and safe decisions.

Role Overview: As an ML Engineer on our perception team, you will own the development and deployment of 3D perception models across object detection, semantic segmentation, and lane detection. Your work will directly shape how our autonomous systems perceive and understand the world.

• Train and evaluate 3D perception models for object detection, segmentation, and lane detection.
• Improve model performance across challenging conditions such as long range and sparse point clouds.
• Deploy perception models to production and own the full lifecycle from research to real-world integration.
• Diagnose and resolve deployment issues including latency, accuracy degradation, and edge case failures in the field.
• Monitor model performance in production and iterate rapidly based on real-world feedback.
• Build auto-labeling pipelines using vision-language models to accelerate data annotation.

• MS or PhD in CS, Robotics, or a related field.
• Hands‑on experience with 3D object detection on LiDAR point clouds.
• Experience using VLMs for auto‑labeling or offline perception tasks.
• Strong Python and PyTorch skills.
• Familiarity with large‑scale dataset pipelines and annotation workflows.
• Experience with multi‑object tracking or sensor fusion is a plus.

$154,900—$222,365 a year

Salary pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, the successful candidate’s starting base pay will be determined based on factors including job‑related skills, experience, certifications, qualifications, relevant education or training, and market conditions. These ranges are subject to change in the future. Depending on the position offered, equity, bonus, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, pre‑tax commuter and health care/dependent care accounts, 401(k) plan, life and disability benefits, flexible time off, paid parental leave, and 11 paid holidays annually.