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Senior Context Fusion AI Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $184,000–$184,000🗓 2026-09-18 → 2026-09-25

Core

Building a learned 3D/4D world model that fuses navigation, ego-motion, perception, and sensor signals to support L3/L4 autonomous driving.

Role type

Senior IC machine-learning engineer (autonomous vehicle context fusion)

Builds

Production-quality AV systems with unified spatiotemporal world representations

Domain

Autonomous Vehicles / Computer Vision / Robotics

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Multimodal sensor fusion, 3D geometry and coordinate frames, deep learning for 3D perception, Transformer architectures, C++ and Python, PyTorch, CUDA, distributed training, uncertainty estimation, BEV representations, foundation model pre-training and fine-tuning

Preferred skills

Multi-task driving models, VLMs, neural scene representation, 3D reconstruction, occupancy-flow, spatiotemporal world-model methods, NVIDIA GPU optimization (TensorRT)

Technologies

PyTorch, CUDA, NVIDIA GPUs, TensorRT, BEV, Transformers, VLMs

Responsibilities

Design learning-based multimodal sensor-fusion systems; Build architectures reasoning over camera, LiDAR, radar, and vehicle-state inputs; Develop end-to-end models for road graph elements, semantic understanding, and occupancy; Create training and evaluation pipelines for large-scale datasets; Investigate foundation-model approaches for autonomous driving; Develop debugging tools for model failures and distribution shift.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership experience

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