Gatik
Machine Learning Engineer
$170K–$240K
Santa Clara, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA
Santa Clara, California, United States - Experience
- Open to all experience levels; leveling is based on experience and technical depth.
- Education
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Optimization, or a related field.
About the job
Develop, optimize, and deploy production machine-learning models for autonomous vehicles, from data workflows and training through real-time vehicle integration and monitoring.
What you'll do
- Own the ML lifecycle, including data preparation, training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
- Develop autonomous-driving models and optimize neural networks for constrained vehicle hardware and real-time inference.
- Build ML pipelines and evaluate model performance using simulation and real-world driving data; collaborate across autonomy, systems, hardware, and infrastructure teams.
What they ask for
- Strong Python skills and experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Strong C++ skills and experience integrating ML models into high-performance production systems.
- Deep understanding of ML workflows and experience deploying and optimizing neural networks for real-time, embedded, robotics, autonomous-driving, or other performance-constrained systems.
- Experience with model optimization techniques and software profiling, latency optimization, system-level debugging, and data-flow analysis.
Nice to have
- Experience with CUDA, TensorRT, and cloud-based ML pipelines, preferably Azure.
- Experience with advanced model types or safety-critical ML systems; publications or technical contributions in relevant areas are a plus.
Pay
$170,000 - $240,000 (base salary)
Tools
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, C++, CUDA, TensorRT, Azure
AI focus
Develop and optimize autonomous-driving ML models for perception, prediction, planning, and scene understanding, including efficient neural networks and real-time deployment on vehicle hardware.
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