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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AV Core

Sunnyvale, California USA💼 Full-time💰 $336,400–$336,400🗓 2026-05-22 → 2026-09-26

Core

Shape end-to-end driving model safety and reliability by building foundational capabilities for collision avoidance, scene understanding, and robustness under failure.

Role type

Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Autonomous Driving)

Builds

End-to-end AV 2.0 models, high-value open-loop and closed-loop evaluations, and shared representations for core capabilities.

Domain

Autonomous Vehicles / Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

ML engineering, Python, C++, CUDA, PyTorch, transformer-based architectures, multimodal architectures, vision-language models (VLM), vision-language-action models (VLA), shared representation training, staff-level technical leadership

Preferred skills

autonomous vehicles deployment, 3D scene understanding, reward modelling, behaviour modelling, model introspection, interpretability, safety-critical systems, foundations/pretraining experience

Technologies

PyTorch, C++, CUDA

Responsibilities

Drive Core Model Safety roadmap themes owning the full lifecycle from research to offline/online experiments to technology transfer; Train and deploy end-to-end AV 2.0 models on global fleet using large-scale diverse data; Build high-value open-loop and closed-loop evaluations for core capabilities and representation learning; Align priorities and learn from the organisation on roadmaps and failure modes; Mentor others on the team

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with technical leadership

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