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Senior Machine Learning and Simulation Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $224,000–$224,000🗓 2026-04-15 → 2026-08-01

Core

Designing and optimizing large-scale Closed-Loop Simulation-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) frameworks to train advanced end-to-end autonomous vehicle (AV) models.

Role type

Senior Machine Learning and Simulation Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Builds

Scalable RL training frameworks, simulation pipelines, and data processing systems for AV foundation models.

Domain

Autonomous Vehicles, Reinforcement Learning, High-Performance Computing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Reinforcement Learning (PPO, GRPO), C++, Python, Large-scale GPU cluster management, HPC environments, Job scheduling/orchestration (Kubernetes, SLURM), Reward function design, Simulation quality measurement, Multi-modal model training

Preferred skills

RL infrastructure or LLM training/fine-tuning experience, Simulation & closed-loop evaluation of end-to-end models, Large-scale data pipeline development, Algorithm optimization

Technologies

NuRec, Traffic Models, Cosmos World Model, Kubernetes, SLURM

Responsibilities

Lead design and development of large-scale RL training frameworks; Design, build, and optimize simulation and data processing pipelines; Measure and enhance simulation quality and refine reward functions; Ensure reliability and performance of training workflows on GPU clusters; Partner with researchers to integrate model architectures into training pipelines

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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