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Staff Machine Learning Engineer
$273K–$345K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 26, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 10+ years of non-internship professional MLE experience.
About the job
Develop and deploy machine-learning systems for autonomous transport, spanning model research, edge optimization, and mining rare scenarios from driving data.
What you'll do
- Develop multimodal models, world models, and reinforcement-learning or distillation methods for vehicle perception, planning, and actuation.
- Optimize and deploy models on vehicle edge hardware, profiling inference pipelines and reducing latency and resource bottlenecks.
- Build data pipelines to identify and curate rare driving scenarios and support simulation, testing, and model improvement.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of non-internship professional MLE experience.
- Deep expertise applying AI Transformers to robotics, physical actuation, or spatial-temporal data; experience with multimodal systems, VLA models, or generative Diffusion models.
- Experience with sensor fusion using Cameras, LiDAR, and Radar.
- Proficiency in Python and PyTorch or JAX; C++ is also required for some specializations.
Nice to have
- Experience with multi-task learning, Birds-Eye-View (BEV) frameworks, representation learning, or data tokenization.
- Familiarity with low-level camera/sensor interfaces and robotics hardware.
Pay
$273,000 - $345,000 per year (USD, base salary)
Tools
PyTorch, JAX, Python, C++, TensorRT, CUDA, Cameras, LiDAR
AI focus
Physical AI for autonomous transport, including multimodal perception and actuation, world models, reinforcement learning, model distillation and optimization, and data curation for long-tail driving scenarios.
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