Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Motional is a driverless technology company developing autonomous vehicles and robotaxi technology. The Senior Machine Learning Engineer will train, evaluate, deploy, and improve machine-learning models for scene understanding, behavior prediction, and motion planning, while maintaining the associated training and evaluation codebase.
Responsibilities
- Designing and executing high value experiments based on collaborative input from other machine learning engineers
- Prototyping and implementing continuously improving metrics to evaluate the performance of our behavioral models across many desired scenarios and robotaxi capabilities
- Timely release of major model updates, including analysis of both off-line and on-road evaluation data
- Staying up to date with the latest trends in our fast moving industry, and proposing new architectures and network designs based on published literature
- Maintaining a high quality training and evaluation code-base, including portions of our training stack dedicated to dataset generation and evaluation
Skills
- In-depth understanding of common Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms
- Experience designing, training, and analyzing neural networks for at least one of the following applications: motion planning, object detection, sensor fusion, motion prediction, and/or multi-object tracking
- Strong track record of tackling less well-defined problems, and executing efficiently to deliver the successful outcome
- Advanced knowledge of software engineering principles including software design, source control management, build processes, code reviews, and testing methods
- Experience with PyTorch or other python-based deep learning frameworks
- Experience working with large data sets and deriving insights from data
- Experience mentoring and collaborating with others
- Masters or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or a related field; or equivalent industry experience
- Publications in relevant conferences (CVPR, ICML, NeurIPS, ICCV, ICL, etc.)
- PhD in machine learning, computer vision, or robotics vision
- Experience working on autonomous vehicles or related fields
- Experience in deploying models into real-world environments
- Strong programming skills in C++ and/or CUDA programming
- This opportunity can support remote work within the United States, with occasional travel
Benefits
- Candidates for certain positions are eligible to participate in Motional’s benefits program.
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401k with a company match
- Health saving accounts
- Life insurance
- Pet insurance
- This opportunity can support remote work within the United States, with occasional travel.
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