Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Perception

Team: Perception

Location: Santa Clara, CA

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: hybrid

Salary:

Responsibilities:

Design, implement, and optimize BEV-based perception models that fuse camera, LiDAR, and radar inputs.
Benchmark perception models using large-scale datasets and well-defined quantitative metrics.
Collaborate cross-functionally with research, data, and deployment engineers to refine models and support real-world applications.
Maintain a strong focus on performance, robustness, and scalability for deployment in production systems.
Ensure that your work is performed in accordance with the company’s Quality Management System (QMS) requirements and contribute to continuous improvement efforts.
Ensure team compliance with QMS, monitor quality, and drive process improvements.

Required Skills:

Ph.D. or Masters in AI, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.
Ph.D. new grad or Masters + 3 years industry experience
Proficiency in Python and experience building deep learning pipelines.
Strong expertise in PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.
Proven experience with LiDAR-based 3D perception and BEV representation models
Deep understanding of multimodal sensor fusion architectures and techniques.
Familiarity with camera, LiDAR, and radar modalities and their synchronization, calibration, and integration in perception pipelines.
Solid foundation in computer vision, deep learning, and 3D geometry.

Preferred Skills:

Industry or academic experience in autonomous vehicle perception, robotics, or related areas.
Hands-on experience developing deep learning models in real-world or production environments.
Experience with distributed training, high-performance computing, or GPU acceleration.