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Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Perception

$277K–$389K

Boston, MA · Hybrid · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Nov 12, 2024

Education
BS, MS, or PhD degree in computer science or related field

About the job

Leads development of machine-learning perception algorithms and foundation models for autonomous driving, including scene understanding and generative-AI simulation validation.

What you'll do

  • Develop algorithms to understand scenes around the robot and how they evolve over time.
  • Build multimodal foundation models and apply generative AI to improve simulation realism for offline validation.
  • Guide technical direction, mentor ML developers, and collaborate across autonomy teams.

What they ask for

  • BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field.
  • Experience training and deploying deep learning models on sensor data.
  • Experience with production machine-learning pipelines and modern computer-vision techniques.
  • Strong mathematical and probabilistic skills; fluency in C++ or Python with a basic understanding of C++; extensive programming and algorithm-design experience.

Nice to have

  • Publications in CVPR, ICCV, RSS, or ICRA; experience with autonomous robots.
  • Experience with real-time sensor fusion, convolutional neural-network pipelines and architectures, or 3D data and representations.

Pay

USD 277,000–389,000 (per-year-salary) base salary

Tools

C++, Python, LiDAR, camera, radar

AI focus

Develops machine-learning perception algorithms and multimodal foundation models, and applies generative AI to improve simulation realism for offline validation.

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