CareerPlan

Machine Learning Engineer, Driving Foundation Models

Sunnyvale, United StatesFull-time$175k–$250k2026-10-27 → 2026-11-09

Core

Develop driving and physical AI foundation models, specifically supporting the Aria VLA model development for software-defined vehicles.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning engineer (foundation models)

Builds

Driving and physical AI foundation models (Aria VLA)

Domain

Automotive / Mobility AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, C++, Golang, PyTorch, JAX, Hugging Face, vLLM, Kubernetes, Docker, Megatron-LM, DeepSpeed, Transformers, diffusion models

Technologies

PyTorch, JAX, Hugging Face, vLLM, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud

Responsibilities

Design and manage massive multi-terabyte datasets for pretraining; Scale training across massive GPU/TPU clusters; Implement instruction tuning and RLHF for model alignment; Compress and optimize models for low-latency inference on edge hardware; Build benchmarking harnesses and red-teaming pipelines for evaluation.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC