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Senior AI Research Engineer
$225K–$250K
New York City, NY +1 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Location
- New York City, NY
US (Remote) - Experience
- 5+ years of AI modeling experience in the self-driving car industry, or a PhD with 3+ years of AI modeling experience in the self-driving car industry.
About the job
Develops and optimizes AI models, training systems, and evaluation tools for robotics applications, collaborating on infrastructure and deployment.
What you'll do
- Design and implement ML models, training pipelines, data strategies, and evaluation frameworks.
- Lead model experimentation, iteration, debugging, optimization, and fine-tuning.
- Build systems to analyze model behavior and failure modes, and collaborate on training infrastructure and deployment.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of AI modeling experience in the self-driving car industry, or a PhD plus 3+ years of such experience.
- Proven track record developing and deploying large-scale ML models.
- Professional experience with diffusion and autoregressive models.
- PyTorch experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with reinforcement learning.
- Experience implementing ML research papers and adapting academic work.
Pay
$225,000 to $250,000 USD base salary; $225K – $250K USD (base salary)
Tools
PyTorch, Python, NodeJS/Typescript, Docker
AI focus
Applies machine learning to robotics, including model and training-system development, and requires autonomous-vehicle ML planning experience; work includes diffusion and autoregressive models.
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