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Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Machine Learning & System Optimization

Foster City, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-30 → 2026-09-26

Core

Orchestrate system capacity and optimize multi-modality foundation models for autonomous vehicle perception stacks.

Role type

Senior/Staff IC Machine Learning and System Optimization Engineer

Builds

Production-ready, efficient inference pipelines for on-vehicle SoCs

Domain

Autonomous driving / Edge AI / System Optimization

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

System capacity allocation, Model quantization (PTQ, QAT), Mixed-precision inference, Custom CUDA kernel development, Low-latency C++ programming, TensorRT pipeline architecture, Multi-modal sensor fusion optimization

Preferred skills

High-performance robotics experience, SOTA autonomous driving perception algorithms (BEV, 3D Occupancy), End-to-end autonomous driving paradigms (VLM/VLA)

Technologies

CUDA, C++ (14/17/20), Python, TensorRT, PTQ, QAT, LoRA, QLoRA, INT8, FP8, BF16

Responsibilities

Allocate and distribute system resources (CPU/GPU/interconnect) to inference engines, Spearhead cross-cutting initiatives for better compute utilization via model sharing/fusing, Optimize large-scale models using quantization and pruning, Architect and implement model conversion/compilation pipelines, Write production-level low-latency C++ and CUDA code

Seniority

Senior/Staff, hands-on IC

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