CareerPlan

Senior Deep Reinforcement Learning Engineer - Autonomous Driving

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$224k2026-08-27 → 2026-11-10

Core

Build and implement Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms for autonomous vehicle decision-making, planning, and optimization of production-grade automotive hardware.

Role type

Senior Deep Reinforcement Learning Engineer (Autonomous Driving)

Builds

Scalable training pipelines, simulation environments, and RL models integrated into the unified autonomous driving stack.

Domain

Autonomous Driving / Deep Reinforcement Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Reinforcement Learning (policy gradient, actor-critic, on-policy/off-policy), PyTorch or TensorFlow, C++ for real-time systems, Python, scalable training pipeline development, simulation environment design, model benchmarking, hardware optimization.

Preferred skills

Embodied AI, generative models (Flow Matching, Diffusion), large-scale data flywheels, fleet telemetry mining, auto-labeling pipelines.

Responsibilities

Build new RL algorithms for AV decision-making; develop and maintain scalable training pipelines and simulation environments; integrate RL models into the autonomous driving stack; benchmark RL models against imitation learning baselines; optimize and deploy RL models to production automotive hardware.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC