Plus · 2 weeks ago
Staff/Senior Staff Research Engineer, Deep Learning
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$180K/yr - $250K/yr
3+ years expPlus is a Physical AI company pioneering AI-based virtual driver software for factory-built autonomous trucks. The Staff/Senior Staff Research Engineer will develop perception models and vision language models for autonomous driving applications, leading projects from ideation to deployment while ensuring compliance with quality management systems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Autonomous VehiclesLogisticsTransportation
Responsibilities
Develop Bird’s Eye View (BEV) perception models for autonomous driving applications
Develop Vision Language Models for scene understanding and action generation for autonomous driving applications
Complete ownership of project from ideation, design, developing data requirements, model training, evaluation and deployment
Research and prototype novel solutions which can help tackle the long-tail of real-world problems in challenging and diverse scenarios (e.g. on highway and local roads, extreme weather conditions, sensor failures, etc)
Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure model development keeps a real-time focus and operates efficiently in compute-constrained environments
Rigorous approach to model development: running well-designed experiments, defining suitable training and validation datasets, and evaluating on the right metrics
Ensure that your work is performed in accordance with the company’s Quality Management System (QMS) requirements and contribute to continuous improvement efforts
Ensure team compliance with QMS, monitor quality, and drive process improvements
Qualification
Required
MS or PhD in CS, EE, mathematics, statistics or related field
3+ years of industry experience working on cutting edge deep learning applications
Expertise with Python, willingness to do some C++ development as needed
Deep understanding of machine learning principles and methodologies
Experience with implementing deep learning models in at least one deep learning framework (PyTorch, Tensorflow, Jax)
Preferred
Relevant industry experience (prior work on self-driving vehicles, autonomy, computer vision and/or robotics projects)
Past experiences in deep learning projects involving object detection, motion tracking or semantic segmentation, vision-language models, end-to-end learning
In-depth understanding of cutting-edge deep learning techniques and architectures like transformers, CNNs
Expertise in machine learning or related field demonstrated by patents or publications in relevant venues (CVPR, ICLR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, AAAI, SIGGRAPH)
Experience with ML Ops and best practices for scalable ML deployment
Benefits
Catered free lunch
Unlimited snacks and beverages
Highly competitive salary and benefits package, including 401(k) plan.
Company
Plus
Plus is an AI company whose mission is to build “driving intelligence” to power an autonomous future
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$520.03MKey Investors
HSGGSR Ventures
2021-03-01Series C· $100.15M
2020-11-23Series B· $286.18M
2018-11-15Series A· $32M
Leadership Team
David Liu
Founder & CEO
Hao Zheng
Co-Founder & CTO
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