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Woven by Toyota · 1 week ago

Staff ML Engineer, Foundation Models

Palo Alto, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$161K/yr - $264K/yr

8+ years exp

Woven by Toyota is enabling Toyota’s transformation into a mobility company. They are seeking a seasoned ML engineer to support the development of foundation models for their autonomy stack, focusing on data curation, model architecture, training paradigms, and efficient deployment.

AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSoftware

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead the roadmap, research, development, and deployment of foundation models / VLAs / VLMs / world models for our autonomy stack across a variety of applications

Discover new ways to leverage heterogeneous in-house data at Toyota scale

Architect and implement efficient, large-scale distributed ML pipelines for training and fine-tuning, as well as pre/post-training of large multi-modal, multi-task models

Design experiments and benchmarks to evaluate foundation models for autonomy scenarios

Optimize models for speed, accuracy, and robustness under diverse environmental conditions

Translate cutting-edge research into useful production-ready solutions

Enable and help other engineers on the team to be more effective through coaching and leading by example when it comes to writing high-quality code, providing high-quality code and design

Work in a high-velocity environment and employ agile development practices

Team player and 'get things done' mentality

Closely collaborate with internal and external teams to develop end-to-end solutions

Qualification

ML frameworksPythonC++Foundation modelsEfficient ML workflowsDistributed trainingData samplingProduction-level softwareCommunicationTeam player

Required

M.Sc. or higher degree in CS/CE/EE, or equivalent industry experience

8+ years of experience with popular ML frameworks such as PyTorch or similar (e.g. JAX)

6+ years of experience in efficient ML training & deployment workflows: data sampling and sharding, pre-processing, distributed training and parallelism approaches, model training, evaluation & ablation, inference optimization

Prior proven experience in training and deploying state-of-the-art large foundation models leveraging large-scale data

Strong programming skills in Python and C++

Passionate about advancing self driving technology for the mass market

Strong communication skills and ability to communicate concepts clearly and precisely

Experience in production-level software development best practices

Preferred

Hands-on experience with building a perception stack for autonomous systems

Experience in runtime optimization for Linux and UNIX-like real-time operating systems

Publications at major conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICRA, NeurIPS etc

Experience with embedded CUDA development and related tooling

Experience with automotive-grade edge-compute platforms and safety-critical software

Benefits

Excellent health, wellness, dental and vision coverage

A rewarding 401k program

Flexible vacation policy

Family planning and care benefits

Company

Woven by Toyota

Woven by Toyota improve the vehicle intelligence software and operation and accelerate the Toyota Mobility Concept.

Founded in 2023

Tokyo, Tokyo, JPN

1001-5000 employees

https://woven.toyota/en

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