pony.ai
(Senior) Software Engineer, Deep Learning
$140K–$280K
Fremont, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- At least 2 years of equivalent industry experience in similar technical fields as an alternative to a Master in Computer Science.
- Education
- Master in Computer Science, or at least 2 years of equivalent industry experience in similar technical fields.
About the job
Develop and deploy deep learning models and large-scale foundation models for autonomous driving, from defining ML problems to running models in real time on vehicles.
What you'll do
- Design software architecture, modules, evaluation metrics, and testing and regression frameworks with self-driving vehicle experts.
- Develop foundation models using real-world data and apply machine learning approaches to autonomous driving problems and data pipelines.
- Deploy and optimize deep learning models, including VLMs and LLMs, to operate robustly within vehicle runtime constraints.
What they ask for
- Master in Computer Science, or at least 2 years of equivalent industry experience in similar technical fields.
- Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, parallel computing, code optimization, and large scale data processing.
- Experience in applied machine learning, including data collection and analysis, evaluation, and feature engineering.
- Expertise in C++/Python.
Nice to have
- PhD in Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Robotics, Natural Language Processing, or a similar technical field; publications at top-tier conferences.
- Experience with ML/DL for behavior prediction, imitation learning, motion planning, real-time deployment, convex optimization, computational geometry, linear algebra, or GPU/CUDA/TensorRT.
Pay
$140,000 - $280,000 USD base salary
Tools
C++, Python, GPU/CUDA/TensorRT
AI focus
Develops and deploys deep learning and large-scale foundation models for autonomous driving, including vision language models (VLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs), using approaches such as reinforcement learning and imitation learning.
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