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Senior Staff / Principal Machine Learning Engineer - Autonomy Behaviors

Foster City, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2025-11-04 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead technical development of machine learning algorithms for the next-generation ML Planner to produce vehicle driving trajectories.

Role type

Principal Machine Learning Engineer (Autonomy Behaviors)

Builds

ML Planner for autonomous vehicles

Domain

Autonomous driving, robotics

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

technical leadership in large-scale AI, training and deploying Deep Learning models to production, C++ or Python, algorithm design, strong mathematics

Preferred skills

imitation learning, reinforcement learning, model scaling, Foundation Models integration, Prediction and Planning for autonomous vehicles

Technologies

Deep Learning, Foundation Models

Responsibilities

Set technical direction for ML development, push frontiers of imitation/RL/model scaling, identify force-multipliers for ML development, develop methods to leverage Foundation Models, provide technical mentorship, collaborate across teams to solve autonomous driving problems

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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