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Stack AV · 1 week ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer, ML Platform

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

6+ years exp

Stack AV is developing revolutionary AI and advanced autonomous systems aimed at enhancing safety, reliability, and efficiency in the trucking transportation industry. The Senior Staff Software Engineer for the ML Platform will focus on providing trusted data for ML applications, collaborating with various teams to build infrastructure for data mining, semantic search, and dataset management.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesTransportation

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Build state-of-art multimodal data mining and semantic search solutions to power AV product development

Develop data understanding platform infrastructure for real-time querying/vector databases and batch/stream processing using technologies like Ray, Spark, Lance, or similar

Deliver end-to-end data mining solutions that span onboard (C++) and offboard (ML & Data Infra) infrastructure to accelerate AV product development

Develop e2e solution for real-time semantic search services (text/images/videos) and vector DBs

Discover and identify key issues in existing ML infra and proactively improve system performance

Build low latency/high throughput batch or stream processing pipelines

Drive technical discussions across multiple orgs and deliver solutions on a timely basis

Architect and tune ETL pipelines to maximize GPU/CPU/Ram utilization

Write readable and high-performance Python/C++ code

Qualification

ML platformsML infrastructureMultimodal data indexingSemantic search serviceModel trainingModel optimizationLarge scale ML pipelinesDesign trade-offsAutonomous vehicles experienceCollaboration

Required

Experience with both ML platforms and building ML-based applications (modeling experience is a bonus)

Proven track record of building scalable, reliable infrastructure in a fast-paced environment

Ability to collaborate effectively across teams

Experience building or using ML infrastructure for a large number of customer teams

Deep understanding of design trade-offs with the ability to articulate those trade-offs and achieve alignment with others

Experience in building ML models or infrastructure in domains such as autonomous vehicles, perception, and decision-making (desirable but not required)

Experience with model training, model optimization, or large data processing pipelines

Prior experience in autonomous vehicles (AV) is a plus

6+ years of experience with:

+ Multimodal data indexing and inference pipelines

+ Building semantic search service, embedding generation for video/images and vector DB

+ Large scale ML pipelines (Airflow/Flyte) and model optimization

Company

Stack AV

Stack AV operates in the transportation industry that develops advanced autonomous systems.

Founded in 2023

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

51-200 employees

https://www.stackav.com

Funding

Current Stage

Growth Stage

Total Funding

$1B

Key Investors

SoftBank

2023-09-07Series Unknown· $1B

Leadership Team

Bryan Salesky

CEO, Stack AV

Brett Browning

CTO

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