Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Motional is a driverless technology company focused on making autonomous vehicles safe and accessible. The Senior Machine Learning Engineer will be responsible for training, evaluating, and deploying machine learning models for scene understanding, behavior prediction, and planning to enhance the capabilities of robotaxis.
Responsibilities
- Designing and executing high value experiments based on collaborative input from other machine learning engineers
- Prototyping and implementing continuously improving metrics to evaluate the performance of our behavioral models across many desired scenarios and robotaxi capabilities
- Timely release of major model updates, including analysis of both off-line and on-road evaluation data
- Staying up to date with the latest trends in our fast moving industry, and proposing new architectures and network designs based on published literature
- Maintaining a high quality training and evaluation code-base, including portions of our training stack dedicated to dataset generation and evaluation
Skills
- In-depth understanding of common Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms
- Experience designing, training, and analyzing neural networks for at least one of the following applications: motion planning, object detection, sensor fusion, motion prediction, and/or multi-object tracking
- Strong track record of tackling less well-defined problems, and executing efficiently to deliver the successful outcome
- Advanced knowledge of software engineering principles including software design, source control management, build processes, code reviews, and testing methods
- Experience with PyTorch or other python-based deep learning frameworks
- Experience working with large data sets and deriving insights from data
- Experience mentoring and collaborating with others
- Masters or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or a related field; or equivalent industry experience
- Publications in relevant conferences (CVPR, ICML, NeurIPS, ICCV, ICL, etc.)
- PhD in machine learning, computer vision, or robotics vision
- Experience working on autonomous vehicles or related fields
- Experience in deploying models into real-world environments
- Strong programming skills in C++ and/or CUDA programming
Benefits
- Candidates for certain positions are eligible to participate in Motional’s benefits program.
- Motional’s benefits include but are not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401k with a company match, health saving accounts, life insurance, pet insurance, and more.
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