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Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Ann Arbor , MI - HQ💼 Full-time💰 $220,000–$220,000🗓 2026-05-01 → 2026-07-31

Core

Designing, training, and evaluating state-of-the-art Machine Learning models for autonomous driving, simulation, and platform stacks in a commercial large-scale environment.

Role type

Lead Machine Learning Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Builds

Autonomous vehicle decision-making systems, simulation environments, and ML platform infrastructure for public transit.

Domain

Autonomous Vehicles / Robotics / Computer Vision / Generative AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Architecting and training Vision Language Action (VLA) models, training Generative World Models, handling Foundation Models in Robotics, managing Data Centric AI pipelines, processing multi-modal datasets >100TB, addressing long-tail failure cases, leading cross-functional engineering teams, defining data balance and training practices at petabyte scale

Preferred skills

Post-training techniques, deploying models to edge hardware, C/C++/CUDA memory and threading models

Technologies

Python, PyTorch, Linux, LiDAR, Camera, Radar

Responsibilities

Design, train, and evaluate state-of-the-art models for autonomous driving and simulation; Leverage emerging techniques in End-to-End driving, VLA, and World/Foundation model domains; Lead small teams of cross-functional engineers; Define data balance, training experiment, and evaluation practices for petabyte-scale training

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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