CareerPlan

Senior Engineer - Perception Modeling

Boston, MAFull-time$172k2026-10-06 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead architecture and development of advanced perception systems for self-driving vehicles, focusing on large-scale multi-modal foundation models, synthetic data generation, and deploying solutions onto autonomous vehicle fleets.

Role type

Senior IC machine-learning engineer (autonomous driving perception)

Builds

Large-scale multi-modal foundation models, sensor simulation capabilities, and onboard real-time perception models

Domain

Autonomous driving / Robotics / Computer Vision

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Network design, Object detection, Sensor fusion, Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Software engineering principles

Preferred skills

Foundation Models, World Models, Knowledge Distillation, Synthetic Data Generation, Model compression

Technologies

TensorFlow, PyTorch, Python

Responsibilities

Lead architecture and development of advanced perception systems; Architect and scale synthetic data generation and sensor simulation capabilities; Drive knowledge transfer from large teacher/foundation models to efficient onboard real-time perception models; Productionize and deploy solutions onto autonomous vehicle fleets; Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to senior and mid-level engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC