Deep Learning Engineer for Real-Time Autonomous Driving

Pony.ai; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement Plan (Traditional & Roth 4

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Family Leave

Disability Insurance

Free Food & Snacks

Job summary

Pony.ai is seeking talented ML engineers to advance autonomous mobility. You will work on software architecture for self-driving vehicles, design scalable ML systems, and deploy models that operate in real-time on cars.

The role emphasizes C++/Python expertise, data-driven development, and collaboration with a world-class team. The position involves building large-scale foundation models, including vision-language and LLMs, and optimizing performance under stringent runtime constraints.

Qualifications

• Master in Computer Science, or at least 2 years of equivalent industry experience in similar technical fields.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, parallel computing, code optimization and large scale data processing.
• Experience in applied machine learning including data collection and analysis, evaluation and feature engineering.
• Expertise in C++/Python.
• Strong communication skills and team spirit.

Responsibilities

• Work with experts in the field of self-driving vehicles on software architecture and design, system and module design, evaluation metrics, specification and implementation of test and regression frameworks.
• Design and develop large-scale foundation models trained on vast of real world data.
• Frame the open-ended real-world problems into well-defined ML problems; develop and apply cutting-edge ML approaches to these problems; scale them to data pipelines; and streamline them to run in real-time on the cars.
• Develop and deploy deep learning models, including vision language models (VLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Optimize deep learning models to run robustly under tight run-time constraints.

Skills

C++/Python

Data structures

Algorithms

Parallel computing

Code optimization

Large-scale data processing

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Master in Computer Science

Equivalent industry experience

Tools

CUDA/TensorRT

Job description

Pony.ai is seeking talented ML engineers to advance autonomous mobility. You will work on software architecture for self-driving vehicles, design scalable ML systems, and deploy models that operate in real-time on cars.

The role emphasizes C++/Python expertise, data-driven development, and collaboration with a world-class team. The position involves building large-scale foundation models, including vision-language and LLMs, and optimizing performance under stringent runtime constraints.