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Senior Research Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $184,000–$184,000🗓 2026-01-09 → 2026-07-31

Core

Developing large-scale AI training frameworks and simulation infrastructure for autonomous vehicle foundation models and end-to-end driving policies.

Role type

Senior Research Engineer (AI Infrastructure & Simulation)

Builds

Scalable multi-modal foundation models for AVs, GPU-accelerated simulators, and sim-to-real transfer pipelines.

Domain

Autonomous Vehicles, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, High-Performance Computing

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Distributed training system design, Reinforcement learning algorithms, GPU/CUDA programming, Cluster management, Python, C++, Multimodal data processing

Preferred skills

LLM integration, Policy learning techniques, HPC environments

Technologies

PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, CUDA, Kubernetes, SLURM, GPU clusters

Responsibilities

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

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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