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Staff Tech Lead, Perception, Pre-training & Distillation

Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680)💼 Full-time💰 $251,000–$251,000🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-26

Core

Train multi-billion parameter spatio-temporal foundation models on massive datasets to enable real-time perception for autonomous driving.

Role type

Staff IC machine-learning engineer (perception & pre-training)

Builds

Pre-trained foundation models for production use in real-time autonomous driving systems

Domain

Autonomous driving, Computer Vision, Deep Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Multi-billion parameter model training, Self-supervised learning, Multi-teacher distillation, Latent representation evaluation, Diverse dataset curation, Technical roadmap contribution

Preferred skills

Top-tier conference publications, Real-time system design, C++

Technologies

PyTorch, JAX, Python

Responsibilities

Train spatio-temporal foundation models on multi-billion frame datasets, Develop self-supervised learning methods for encoders and reconstruction, Create multi-teacher distillation recipes, Evaluate quality of latent representations, Curate and use diverse training datasets, Contribute to technical roadmaps

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC

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