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Senior Research Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$184k2026-08-05 → 2026-11-10

Core

Developing large-scale supervised and reinforcement learning training frameworks, simulation infrastructure, and sim-to-real pipelines for multi-modal foundation models in autonomous vehicles.

Role type

Senior Research Engineer (AI Infrastructure & MLOps)

Builds

Scalable training frameworks, GPU-accelerated simulators, and sim-to-real transfer pipelines for AV foundation models.

Domain

Autonomous Vehicles, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, MLOps

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed training systems design, Reinforcement learning algorithms, GPU acceleration & CUDA, Cluster management (Kubernetes/SLURM), Python & C++ programming, Multimodal data processing, Simulation infrastructure development, LLM integration, Training pipeline optimization

Preferred skills

Experience with PyTorch/JAX/TensorFlow, Policy learning techniques (reward shaping, domain randomization), HPC environments

Technologies

PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, CUDA, Kubernetes, SLURM, Python, C++

Responsibilities

Develop large-scale training frameworks for multi-modal foundation models; Optimize GPU and cluster utilization for massive dataset training; Implement scalable data loaders for multimodal datasets; Build and optimize GPU-accelerated simulation infrastructure; Collaborate on integrating model architectures into training pipelines; Develop sim-to-real transfer pipelines for AV deployment; Propose scalable solutions combining LLMs with policy learning; Apply reinforcement learning to fine-tune multimodal LLMs; Develop monitoring and debugging tools for training workflows.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC