Engineering Manager – LiDAR Perception & ML Systems (Hybrid)

torcrobotics; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work locations (Ann Arbor, MI;.

Equity and bonus

Employer-paid health premiums

401(k) with match

Generous paid vacation

Life and AD+D insurance

Job summary

torcrobotics is seeking an engineering manager to lead a machine learning team building active-sensor perception systems (LiDAR and radar) for autonomous trucks. The role blends people management with hands-on technical guidance across the full perception lifecycle, from data and architecture through model training, evaluation, deployment, and on-vehicle validation.

You will own roadmap, priorities, and delivery while partnering with cross-functional groups across sensor hardware, data

Qualifications

• Engineering manager with proven track record shipping production ML systems.
• Experience deploying real-time perception models on embedded compute with latency constraints.
• Hands-on ML lifecycle expertise from data collection to deployment and robotic testing.
• Experience with pipelines for motion compensation, point-cloud aggregation, sensor fusion and graceful degradation.
• Strong ability to define technical roadmaps and manage cross-functional dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of ML and software engineers through hiring, performance management, career development, and continuous feedback.
• Set technical direction, roadmap, and priorities for active-sensor perception aligned with perception and vehicle-level milestones.
• Own end-to-end delivery of multitask models for object detection, road and lane detection, and free-space estimation using LiDAR and radar data.
• Guide architecture decisions spanning shared backbones, task-specific representations, sensor fusion, temporal modeling, and uncertainty estimation, while preventing regressions across tasks or downstream behavior.
• Define strategies that maintain perception quality under adverse weather, environmental change, sensor degradation, sensor failures, missing inputs, and unreliable or delayed data.
• Represent the team across the broader organization, communicating progress, dependencies, and risks to senior leadership and technical partners.

Skills

Engineering management

3D perception

Multitask learning

Embedded compute

ML lifecycle

Sensor fusion

Education

PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or ML

Tools

CUDA

cuDNN

cuBLAS

TensorRT

Job description

torcrobotics is seeking an engineering manager to lead a machine learning team building active-sensor perception systems (LiDAR and radar) for autonomous trucks. The role blends people management with hands-on technical guidance across the full perception lifecycle, from data and architecture through model training, evaluation, deployment, and on-vehicle validation.

You will own roadmap, priorities, and delivery while partnering with cross-functional groups across sensor hardware, data