Motional · 1 week ago
Fellow, Machine Learning - Autonomy
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$271K/yr - $373K/yr
15+ years expMotional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. They are seeking a distinguished Machine Learning Engineer to join its Autonomy team, responsible for developing key features for their autonomous driving platform by applying machine learning to various prediction, planning, and control problems.
AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesFleet ManagementInformation TechnologySoftware
Responsibilities
Researching, implementing, and evaluating deep-learning-based methods for prediction and planning for Motional’s Autonomous Vehicle products
Leading, Designing, running, and analyzing experiments and testing to evaluate the efficiency of our solutions on real-world data
Partnering with system software engineering specialists to ship industrial strength ML models
Communicating and collaborating with multi-functional teams
Qualification
Required
BS/MS/PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, applied math, or related fields (or equivalent experience)
15+ years of proven experience building ML systems for autonomous vehicles or similar robotics applications
Deep understanding of large language models (LLM) and transformers
Hands on experience building large scale production ML systems and deploying them at scale
Excellent leadership and track record for innovation to help us build the next generation of our ML based planning solutions
Experience with deep neural network (DNN) training, inference and optimization in leading frameworks (Pytorch, Tensorflow, TensorRT, etc.)
Excellent understanding of the mathematical foundations of machine learning and deep learning
Hands-on experience and deep knowledge in machine learning
Understanding of deep neural networks, autonomous vehicles, and domain adaptation
Strong research, SW development, communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills
Preferred
Prior experience as a ML planning lead
Proven publication record in ML for planning, vision, or related fields
Prior experience building and deploying vision language action or chain of thought models
Benefits
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Company
Motional
Motional offers an autonomous driving platform for robotaxi providers, fleet operators, and automotive manufacturers.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2024-05-03Acquired
2024-03-15Seed
Leadership Team
Laura Major
President and CEO
Balajee Kannan
Vice President, Autonomy
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