Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Autonomy Stack

Torc Robotics; Montreal; On-site; CAD 160,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Torc Robotics seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join its Autonomy Stack team. You will leverage your expertise in machine learning to develop and optimize models for autonomous vehicles, enhancing safety and efficiency. This role offers the chance to make a significant impact in a leading company within the autonomous driving industry.

Benefits

Competitive compensation with bonus and stock options

Medical, dental, and vision for full-time employees

RRSP plan with 4% employer match

Public Transit Subsidy

Flexible schedule and paid vacation

Company-wide holiday office closures

Life Insurance

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience with ML for computer vision and autonomous driving.
• Mastery of Python and transition research code to production standards.
• Proficient in writing CUDA kernels.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize computer vision models for autonomous vehicles.
• Design deep learning models for object detection and tracking.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to enhance perception systems.

Skills

Machine Learning

Computer Vision

Data Analysis

Deep Learning

Python

PyTorch

CUDA

Data Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree or PhD in Machine Learning

Tools

PyTorch

NVIDIA libraries

Job description

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Autonomy Stack

About the Company

At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel,move freight, and do business.

A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners.Now a part of the Daimler family , we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transformhow the world moves freight.

Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.

About the Company

At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.

A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.

Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.

Meet the team

Torc's Autonomy Applications software utilizes cutting-edge deep learning techniques to perceive the vehicle's environment, predict the movements of other vehicles, and execute accurate driving decisions. We are actively seeking highly experienced senior machine learning engineers to join our model development department. This is an exceptional opportunity for you to have a significant impact on the future of the autonomous vehicle industry by leveraging AI.

What you'll do:

Develop and optimize computer vision, lidar and radar-based ML models

• Implementing monocular and stereo depth estimation algorithms.
• Comprehending objects, lanes, obstacles, and weather conditions within the driving environment.
• Enhance perception systems to process multi-modal sensor data effectively.
• Utilizing data science techniques to analyze model performance, data distributions, and identify corner cases.

Contribute to BEV Self-Driving Architectures

• Design and implement deep learning models for object detection, semantic segmentation, and voxel grid occupancy in BEV frameworks.
• Integrate BEV representations into end-to-end planning and control pipelines.

Contribute to behavior level ML models

• Design and implement deep learning models for learned actor prediction
• Fuse object tracking and actor prediction models
• Design and implement learned trajectory planning models

Data Management and Processing

• Develop efficient pipelines for large-scale data processing and annotation(pseudo-labeling) of sensor data (e.g., LiDAR point clouds, image frames).
• Implement data augmentation, synthetic data generation, and domain adaptation strategies to improve model robustness.

Model Deployment and Optimization

• Collaborating with conversion and deployment teams to ensure seamless integration.
• Deploy machine learning models on edge devices, ensuring real-time performance and resource efficiency.
• Optimize inference pipelines for embedded and automotive-grade hardware platforms.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with robotics, software, and hardware engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of perception systems.
• Work with product and operations teams to define performance metrics and improve system reliability.

Leadership

• Contributing to the model development roadmap and providing strategic advice to technical leadership.
• Mentoring and guiding junior team members to enhance their technical skills and career growth.

What you’ll need to Succeed:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, artificial intelligence or related field with 6+ years of professional experience or a master's degree with 4+ years of experience
• Scientific understanding of machine learning for at least one of the following
  • 3D BEV space modeling
  • Actor prediction
  • Learned trajectory planning
  • Autonomous driving end to end modeling
  • Vision, lidar and radar-based object detection and classification
  • Multimodal multitask machine learning
  • Pixel – level processing tasks like depth estimation, segmentation, etc.
  • Calibration, odometry, localization
  • Tracking
• Experience with understanding data distributions and analyzing long tail distributions
• Mastery of Python and PyTorch, with the ability to transition research level code to production and deployment ready standards
• PhD in machine learning or data science
• Proficient in writing CUDA kernels and developing custom PyTorch operations.
• Experience with relevant NVIDIA libraries and frameworks, such as CUBLAS, CuDNN, and NPP
• Proficiency with Ray

Hiring Range for Job Opening

• Senior: $160,800 - $193,000

Perks of Being a Full-time Torc’r

Torc cares about our team members and we strive to provide benefits and resources to support their health, work/life balance, and future. Our culture is collaborative, energetic, and team focused. Torc offers:

• A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options
• Medical, dental, and vision for full-time employees
• RRSP plan with a 4% employer match
• Public Transit Subsidy (Montreal area only.)
• Flexibility in schedule and generous paid vacation.
• Company-wide holiday office closures
• Life Insurance

At Torc, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We celebrate the uniqueness of our Torc’rs and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, or disabilities.

Even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications listed for this opportunity, we encourage you to apply.

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