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Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning

San Mateo, California, United StatesFull-time$170k2026-03-25 → 2026-11-10

Core

Designing and deploying real-time deep learning models for autonomous navigation in unknown environments using visual data.

Role type

Senior IC deep learning engineer (autonomy/computer vision)

Builds

Autonomous flight software for aerial robots

Domain

Robotics + Computer Vision

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Deep learning model design and training, Computer vision algorithms, Embedded systems optimization, Data curation and labeling, Python, PyTorch, C++, Academic literature review

Preferred skills

Foundation models, Knowledge distillation, Few-shot learning, Occupancy networks, Automated path planning

Technologies

PyTorch, C++, Python

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and deploy computer vision and multimodal deep learning models; Leverage real world and synthetic data for training and evaluation; Refine and optimize models for low-latency on embedded hardware; Develop evaluation benchmarks and metrics

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC