CareerPlan

Senior Software Engineer, World Model Systems Engineering - Autonomous Vehicles

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$184k2026-07-24 → 2026-11-10

Core

Develop perception, mapping, and localization system requirements for autonomous vehicles, defining performance budgets and validating world model stacks.

Role type

Senior Systems Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Builds

Perception, mapping, and localization solutions for self-driving cars

Domain

Autonomous Vehicles / AI / Computer Vision

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Systems engineering, performance analysis, verification and validation, VLMs, LLMs, agentic workflows, data strategy, failure analysis (FTA, MTBF), SQL, Python, C++

Preferred skills

Autonomous vehicles experience, machine learning, computer vision, large dataset handling

Technologies

VLMs, LLMs, SQL, Python, C++