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Staff AI Research Engineer
$250K–$300K
New York City +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 25, 2026
- Location
- New York City
United States (Remote) - Experience
- 7+ years of AI modeling experience in the self-driving car industry, or a PhD with 3+ years of AI modeling experience in that industry.
- Education
- PhD (stated as an alternative to the 7+ years experience requirement).
About the job
Develop and optimize AI models, training systems, and evaluation and deployment infrastructure for robotics applications.
What you'll do
- Design ML models, training pipelines, data strategies, and evaluation metrics for robotics applications.
- Lead rapid model experimentation, prototyping, fine-tuning, debugging, and performance optimization.
- Build tools to analyze model behavior and failure modes, and collaborate on training infrastructure and deployment.
What they ask for
- Professional experience with diffusion and autoregressive models.
- Proven track record developing and deploying large-scale ML models.
- Experience with PyTorch.
- Experience with model debugging, optimization, and performance tuning.
Nice to have
- Experience with reinforcement learning and camera-to-trajectory pipelines for self-driving or robotics.
- Background implementing ML research papers and adapting academic work.
Pay
$250,000 to $300,000 (base salary); $250K – $300K (compensation; type not specified)
Tools
PyTorch, Python, NodeJS/Typescript, Docker
AI focus
Apply machine learning to robotics, including model training and evaluation, diffusion and autoregressive models, and ML planning related to autonomous vehicles.
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