Engineering Manager, Sensors; LiDAR) Remote, U.S, Ann Arbor, MI, Fort Worth, TX, Blacksburg, VA

At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.

A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family , we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.

Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.

Torc's Perception teams develop the production machine learning systems that enable our autonomous trucks to understand their surroundings. The Active Sensors team owns the end-to-end lidar perception pipeline, from motion compensation and point-cloud aggregation to multitask learned perception for object detection, road and lane understanding, 3D occupancy estimation for safe vehicle operations. These systems must run in real-time on embedded compute while remaining robust to adverse weather, sensor degradation, and sensor failures.

The team works across machine learning, 3D perception, and embedded systems, balancing perception performance and robustness against latency, memory, power and on-board compute budget.

As the team's Engineering Manager, you will lead development across the complete perception lifecycle, from data requirements and pipeline architecture through model training, evaluation, integration, deployment, and robotic testing. You will collaborate closely with teams across sensor hardware, data, infrastructure, simulation, compute platform, systems engineering, safety, perception, and planning.

The Perception department is seeking an experienced and technically strong Engineering Manager to lead a machine learning team developing active sensor-based perception capabilities for our autonomous trucks.

You will be responsible for the team's people leadership, technical direction, and execution. You will create an environment in which engineers can deliver high-quality results, advance the technology, and grow both individually and as a team. You will own roadmap planning, prioritization, and delivery while ensuring that the team's commitments are clear, realistic, and aligned with the company milestones.

You will work within a broader organization of teams developing perception and behavior capabilities across the autonomous-driving stack. You will represent the team across the organization, collaborate with technical and cross-functional partners, and communicate progress, dependencies, and risks to senior leadership.

The role requires a leader who combines strong people management with technical depth and disciplined execution. You will remain sufficiently close to the team's work to guide technical decisions and remove blockers while connecting its roadmap to the department's broader mission of delivering production-grade machine learning systems for autonomous trucking.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or related field with 6+ years of professional experience or a master's degree with 4+ years of experience.
• 2+ years of experience leading and managing engineers, including coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Strong technical foundation in machine learning and computer vision, including 3D geometry, model evaluation, uncertainty, and perception failure modes.
• Experience developing and deploying production machine learning systems for autonomous driving, robotics, or another real-world application.
• Experience with one or more relevant areas, such as multitask learning, object detection, road and lane detection, or 3D occupancy estimation.
• Strong understanding of lidar sensing and its impact on perception, including scan patterns, reflectance, FMCW lidar, and sensor time synchronization.
• Experience across the machine learning lifecycle, including data curation, model training, controlled experimentation, offline evaluation, system integration, and production validation.
• Experience analyzing data distributions, dataset coverage, long-tail scenarios, and the relationship between training data and model performance.
• Strong proficiency in Python and PyTorch, along with practical experience using C++ in production perception or machine learning systems.
• Experience deploying and optimizing deep learning models…