Senior Research Scientist - Autonomous Vehicles

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $192,000–$192,000🗓 2026-01-09 → 2026-07-31

Core

Conducting fundamental and applied research on AI-powered autonomous vehicle systems, focusing on agent behavior, end-to-end architectures, safety, and closed-loop training paradigms.

Role type

Senior Research Scientist (Autonomous Vehicles)

Builds

AI-powered autonomous vehicles (self-driving cars, delivery/construction robots) and open-source research artifacts

Domain

Autonomous Vehicles / Robotics / AI Safety

Deliverable

production ML models | research

Required skills

vehicle/robot autonomy theory and practice, Python, C++, parallel programming (CUDA), machine learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow), academic publishing

Preferred skills

experience with VLMs and reasoning models, open-source contributions

Technologies

PyTorch, TensorFlow, CUDA, Python, C++

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