Drimva

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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First seen Oct 29, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)