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Senior / Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Perception Attributes

Foster City, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-02 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop and maintain robust perception attribute models for vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists to generate critical signals for autonomous driving prediction and planning.

Role type

Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Perception Attributes)

Builds

Behavioral models for road users serving the autonomous driving stack

Domain

Autonomous driving / Computer Vision

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Deep Learning model training and deployment, Knowledge distillation from foundation models, Production ML pipeline design, Python programming, Algorithm design, Mathematical modeling

Preferred skills

VLMs/VLAs/ViTs familiarity, Large model distillation in production, C++

Responsibilities

Lead development of behavioral models for vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists; Create and maintain perception attribute models; Collaborate with Prediction and Planning teams to optimize model outputs; Work with data labeling and ontology teams on attribute definitions and auto-labeling strategies

Seniority

Senior/Staff, hands-on IC

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