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Machine Learning Engineer, Driving Foundation Models
Sunnyvale, United States · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
About the job
Develop driving and physical AI foundation models and support development of the Aria VLA model.
What you'll do
- Curate and manage large datasets, including filtering, deduplication, tokenization, and synthetic data generation.
- Train models across GPU/TPU clusters; implement post-training alignment and optimize inference for cloud and edge hardware.
- Build evaluation benchmarks and safety guardrails, including hallucination checks and red-teaming pipelines.
What they ask for
- Programming languages: Python, C++, and Golang.
- Experience with PyTorch, JAX, the Hugging Face ecosystem, and vLLM.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, distributed training, and cloud platforms.
- Knowledge of linear algebra, calculus, probability, statistics, and deep learning architectures.
Tools
Python, C++, Golang, PyTorch, JAX, Hugging Face, vLLM, Kubernetes
AI focus
Develop driving and physical AI foundation models, support Aria VLA model development, and perform data curation, distributed training, alignment, inference optimization, and safety evaluation.
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