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Research Engineer - AI/RL Infrastructure

Sunnyvale💼 Full-time🗓 2024-09-17 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, build, and operate large-scale ML infrastructure and training systems to support end-to-end autonomous driving and robotic generalist research.

Role type

Senior/Staff Research Engineer (AI/RL Infrastructure)

Builds

Training and evaluation infrastructure, benchmarking systems, data curation pipelines, and distributed training environments for physical AI.

Domain

Autonomous driving, robotics, physical AI, large-scale distributed systems.

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Large-scale distributed training, performance engineering, compute acceleration, systems-level debugging, open-source ML ecosystem judgment, PyTorch, CUDA, Ray, Flyte, Kubernetes

Preferred skills

Self-driving application experience, Tech Lead or Manager capacity

Technologies

PyTorch, CUDA, Ray, Flyte, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Design and build training/evaluation infrastructure orchestrating massive GPU clusters; Build robust benchmarking and regression tracking systems; Develop large-scale data sampling and dataset generation pipelines; Enable high-throughput distributed training across heterogeneous cloud environments; Collaborate with research and autonomy teams to translate research into production systems

Seniority

Senior/Staff, hands-on IC with potential for Tech Lead/Manager

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