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Senior Deep Reinforcement Learning Engineer - Autonomous Driving

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $224,000–$224,000🗓 2026-08-27 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build and implement new Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms for autonomous vehicle decision-making and planning, optimizing and deploying models to 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, High-performance computing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Reinforcement Learning (policy gradient methods, actor-critic architectures), PyTorch or TensorFlow, C++ for real-time systems, Python, algorithm debugging

Preferred skills

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

Technologies

PyTorch, TensorFlow, C++, Python

Responsibilities

Develop RL algorithms for decision-making, maintain training pipelines and simulation environments, integrate RL models with perception and planning teams, benchmark model performance, optimize and deploy to automotive hardware

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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