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Autonomy Senior Machine Learning Engineer

$180K–$250K

Santa Cruz, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2024

Location
Santa Cruz, CA
Concord, CA
Experience
8+ years of experience in machine learning; experience developing software and systems for autonomous vehicles.
Education
Degree in computer science, aerospace engineering, or related field.

About the job

Designs and develops machine-learning perception and autonomy systems that help aircraft navigate safely and autonomously.

What you'll do

  • Design, train, and maintain perception models and build training and evaluation pipelines.
  • Optimize real-time perception algorithms and contribute to sensor-fusion, navigation, detect-and-avoid, and autonomy software.
  • Develop data-management, simulation, and analysis tools, and collaborate with the Superpilot team on integrated solutions.

What they ask for

  • Degree in computer science, aerospace engineering, or a related field.
  • 8+ years of experience in machine learning.
  • Experience developing software and systems for autonomous vehicles.
  • Strong proficiency in Python, practical knowledge of state-of-the-art real-time perception models, and deep understanding of 3D computer vision and machine learning for video.

Nice to have

  • Experience deploying ML models in production using MLOps tools such as MLflow or Kubeflow.
  • Experience with aircraft sensor data, ROS2 or related middleware and DDS, or C++.

Pay

$180,500 - $250,000/yr (base salary)

Tools

Python, MLflow, Kubeflow, ROS2, DDS, C++

AI focus

Develop and deploy machine-learning perception and reasoning for autonomous flight, including sensor fusion, navigation, detect-and-avoid, simulation, mapping, and advanced sensing.

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