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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Vehicle Perception

Palo Alto, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-13 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design and deploy perception foundation models for autonomous vehicles using large-scale multimodal sensor data to enable 3D scene understanding.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning engineer (autonomous vehicle perception)

Builds

Perception foundation models and ML training/deployment pipelines for next-gen autonomous vehicle platforms

Domain

Autonomous driving / Computer vision / Deep learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Deep learning (supervised/unsupervised/transfer/reinforcement), Python, PyTorch, C++, distributed/cloud ML infrastructure, data pipeline architecture, model optimization, neural network architecture design, multimodal architectures, self-supervised learning, pretraining, foundation models

Preferred skills

Published research at top-tier conferences, deploying ML models at scale in self-driving, offboard auto-labeling pipelines, vision-language models, world models, distilling large models for real-time variants, production-level coding on embedded platforms

Responsibilities

Lead design and development of perception foundation models, deploy scalable ML models on autonomous vehicle platform, integrate modern technologies with safety standards, contribute to end-to-end ML training and deployment components, champion scientific method in deep learning solutions, collaborate with Perception, Motion Planning, Simulation, and Infrastructure teams

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership influence

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