Toyota Research Institute
Senior Data Engineer, Large Behavior Models
$180K–$259K
Los Altos, CA · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 4, 2025
- Experience
- 8+ years; ideally in robotics, autonomous driving, or large-scale ML environments.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Builds data infrastructure and tools that support autonomy research, machine learning, and simulation workflows.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain data pipelines for vehicle and simulation data ingestion, transformation, storage, and retrieval.
- Build tools for data labeling, curation, indexing, cataloging, feature stores, and metadata management.
- Partner with research, engineering, and platform teams to support model training, evaluation, simulation, and performance analytics.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience building data-intensive software systems.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL, and familiarity with C++.
- Experience designing ETL pipelines and knowledge of cloud-native architectures, including AWS services or equivalent Google Cloud platform.
Nice to have
- Experience in AD/ADAS, robotics, or autonomous systems.
- Familiarity with ML pipeline orchestration frameworks such as Kubeflow or SageMaker.
Pay
$180,000 and $258,750/year (USD, base pay range)
Tools
Python, SQL, C++, Apache Spark, Flyte, Union, AWS, Google Cloud platform
AI focus
Supports autonomy and machine learning research through data pipelines, feature stores, labeling infrastructure, and hybrid real-world/synthetic data workflows.
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