CareerPlan

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Autonomy

Sunnyvale, United StatesFull-time$210k–$300k2026-10-27 → 2026-11-10

Core

Building a new autonomous driving organization to deliver production-ready L4 autonomy across trucks, buses, passenger vehicles, and robotaxis using ML-first, end-to-end learning, foundation models, VLA models, and world models.

Role type

Founding senior machine learning engineer (autonomous driving)

Builds

End-to-end driving, VLA, and world model systems for real vehicles

Domain

Autonomous driving, robotics, AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, PyTorch, JAX, end-to-end learning, foundation models, VLA models, world models, large-scale distributed training, simulation, synthetic data, safety-critical systems

Preferred skills

Autonomous driving experience, robotics, publications at top conferences

Responsibilities

Lead development of end-to-end driving, VLA, or world model systems; Define and implement scalable autonomy architectures; Adapt foundation models for autonomous driving; Drive major technical initiatives from concept to deployment; Improve training, evaluation, and data efficiency; Mentor engineers and contribute to team growth

Seniority

Senior, founding team