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Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Ann Arbor , MI - HQ💼 Full-time💰 $220,000–$220,000🗓 2026-08-19 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, train, and evaluate state-of-the-art Machine Learning models for autonomous driving, simulation, and platform stacks in a commercial large-scale environment.

Role type

Senior IC Machine Learning Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Builds

Autonomous vehicle decision-making systems, simulation environments, and ML platform infrastructure

Domain

Autonomous Vehicles / Robotics / AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Vision Language Action (VLA) models, Generative World Models, Foundation Models in Robotics, Data Centric AI, Long-tail failure analysis, Team leadership (2-3 engineers), Python/PyTorch, Linux, LiDAR/Camera/Radar processing

Preferred skills

Post-training techniques, Edge hardware deployment, C/C++/CUDA memory and threading models

Technologies

PyTorch, Python, Linux, LiDAR, Camera, Radar

Responsibilities

Design and train state-of-the-art models for autonomous driving and simulation; Leverage emerging techniques in VLA and Foundation models; Lead small cross-functional engineering teams; Define data balance and training practices for petabyte-scale datasets

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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