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Volkswagen of America, Inc · 2 days ago

Senior AI ML Ops Engineer - Must have Autonomous Driving Experience

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$165K/yr - $195K/yr

7+ years exp

Volkswagen of America, Inc is focused on developing fully autonomous mobility and transportation services. They are seeking a Senior AI ML Ops Engineer with autonomous driving experience to develop scalable AI and ML solutions, conduct benchmarks, and collaborate with partners to advance their autonomous driving technology.

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Hiring Manager

Coleen Kane, CDR

Responsibilities

Build scalable AI and ML based solutions to support production AD development use cases including simulation, data analytics, perception, behavior modeling, scene understanding, and fleet operations

Designs and implements new machine learning based approaches based on existing frameworks

Keeps up to speed with the state of the art of academic research and technology in the industry

Tests developed solutions in simulated, prototype, and real-world vehicles (virtual testing, unit tests, integration tests, in-vehicle/field tests, etc.)

Analyzes and evaluates conducted tests

Presents project/progress reports and presentations to top management, mentors, partners, and project affiliates

Transfers technologies and solutions to ADMT GmbH, CARIAD

Develop KPI and operations frameworks for continuous validation and MLOps

Build CI/CD AI deployment pipelines to serve models to production teams

Manages and coordinates the tech scouting process

Communicates regularly and influences partners in US and Germany to define, implement, and deliver new applied AI solutions to satisfy production needs

Expands research network between ADMT LLC and local entities

Manage resource allocation, budget, timelines, and deliverables for work packages

Initiates and implements partnerships with external partners (companies, research institutions, universities) within Silicon Valley and US

Transfers project outcomes to internal Volkswagen Group partners (ADMT GmbH, CARIAD)

Secures intellectual property

Qualification

Autonomous Driving experienceAlgorithm developmentDeep Neural NetworksCloud deploymentData analyticsSimulation frameworksPython programmingMachine LearningCommunication skillsTeam collaborationProblem-solving

Required

Must have experience with algorithm development for Autonomous Driving tasks including Perception, Sensor Fusion, Motion Prediction, Path Planning, End-to-End Driving, Simulation, Data Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies & technical skills

Background in Deep Neural Network Learning, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning

Experience with the complete applied AI/ML development process for a variety of model and problem types: problem definition, architecture definition, training and validation, hyperparameter tuning, cloud deployment and operations, etc

Strong hands-on experience in building and deploying models on both on-premises compute and cloud compute (e.g., AWS)

Experience with feature extraction and engineering from camera, lidar, radar, GPS/ D-GPS and HD maps, object-lists, large-scale fleet data, live data and offline data

Excellent knowledge and practical experience with simulation frameworks such as VTD, Unity, Unreal, ASM or similar

Experience with software-in-the-loop testing, and good knowledge of hardware-in-the-loop testing

Experience with data analytics, data-lake modeling, data preparation and quality assessment, building training/validation data pipelines from data lakes to AI models

Strong programming skills with Python and TensorFlow/Pytorch PyTorch on on-premises compute and public clouds (e.g. AWS), Knowledge of generating features from sensor technology like camera, lidar, radar, GPS/ D-GPS and HD maps

Experience with data gathering, data quality, system architecture, coding best practices

Take initiative to launch projects with the ability to quickly learn and develop own ideas in an interdisciplinary environment

Extracting high level logical structure from low level, multi-dimensional data

Experience with different types of Neural Networks such as Transformers, CNNs, RNNs, LLMs, LSTMs, GNNs, Foundation Models

Experience with different ML paradigms such as supervised/unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, self-supervised learning, and imitation learning paradigms and the latest research trends

Specification/Documentation of interfaces between software modules

Programming languages/tools as Python, C++, LaTex, Bash, Cmake, Git, Linux, familiar with data structures and algorithms, machine learning and math

Experience with common applied AI and software development tools/libraries: Kubernetes, AWS Sagemaker, Docker, HuggingFace, Weights & Biases, OpenCV, OpenGL, TensorRT, CUDA, Open3D, PCL

Preferred

Experience with current state-of-the-art AI technologies such as Vision-Language Models, Neural Radiance Fields, Agentic AI, Embodied AI, Generative AI, Deep Sensor Fusion

Experience with algorithm development for simulation and data analytics use cases, including AI digital twins, scene understanding, outlier detection, synthetic data generation, scenario modeling, traffic modeling, neural reconstruction, AI automation, etc

Good knowledge of scenario-based testing, and test design for the validation of autonomous vehicles

Experience with AD specialized tooling, datatypes, and workflows: DSPACE, OpenScenario, SOTIF, OpenDRIVE, ROS

Experience in programming concepts: Data filters/pipelines, multi-threading, programming for various types of SoC, real-time systems

Experience in a regulated industries such as automotive, aerospace, medical devices etc

Benefits

Eligibility for annual performance bonus

Healthcare benefits

401(k), with company match

Defined contribution retirement program.

Tuition reimbursement

Company lease car program

Paid time off

Company

Volkswagen of America, Inc

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Founded in 1955, Volkswagen of America, Inc., an operating unit of Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (VWoA) is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

Founded in 1955

Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.vw.com/

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