CareerPlan

Senior AI Systems Engineer- Autonomous Driving

Sunnyvale, CA, usFull-time$185k–$215k2026-11-03 → 2026-11-10

Core

Architect and scale intelligent failure triaging and automated Root Cause Analysis (RCA) frameworks for petabyte-scale simulation and real-world vehicle logs to support ADAS and Autonomous Driving technologies.

Role type

Senior AI Systems Engineer (Autonomous Driving)

Builds

Automated diagnostics, failure triaging frameworks, and validation pipelines for self-driving vehicles

Domain

Autonomous Driving / Robotics / Big Data Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, C++, LLMs/VLMs, time-series anomaly detection, causal inference, ROS/ROS2, MCAP, Protobuf, CAN logs, PySpark, Ray, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP

Preferred skills

Vector search/embeddings, autonomous driving software architectures (perception, sensor fusion, localization, motion planning), SiL/HiL/cloud-based replay testing, Apache Airflow, Vector DBs, Databricks/Snowflake

Responsibilities

Architect and scale intelligent failure triaging and automated RCA frameworks; Apply AI/ML methods to isolate failure modes across perception, planning, control, and vehicle platform layers; Integrate automated triaging into CI/CD and cloud replay pipelines; Establish best practices for log data structures and ML pipeline reliability; Partner with autonomy software leads and cloud infrastructure teams to align toolsets.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership