CareerPlan

Senior / Staff Machine Learning Engineer - 3D Sensor Simulation

Foster City, CAFull-time2026-10-12 → 2026-11-14

Core

Design, train, and validate ML models to improve the realism of simulated LiDAR, radar, and camera data for autonomous vehicle AI training and testing.

Role type

Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer (3D Sensor Simulation)

Builds

High-fidelity synthetic sensor data and in-the-loop simulation pipelines for autonomous vehicle autonomy stacks.

Domain

Autonomous Vehicles / Computer Vision / 3D Simulation

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

ML model development, Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow, LiDAR/Radar/Camera data processing, ML pipeline tuning, 3D reconstruction (3DGS/NeRF), Generative AI (diffusion/VAEs)

Preferred skills

AV autonomy experience, differentiable rendering, mentorship

Technologies

Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, 3DGS, NeRF, GenAI

Responsibilities

Design and validate ML models for sensor realism; Integrate 3DGS and NeRF-based reconstruction with simulation; Build and curate training datasets with GenAI augmentation; Define sensor realism metrics to close sim-to-real gaps; Mentor engineers and establish ML best practices.

Seniority

Senior/Staff, Technical Lead