Lead Autonomous Driving Vision Research Engineer

Toyota Research Institute; Los Altos (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 258,750; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) eligibility

Paid time off benefits

Job summary

Toyota Research Institute is seeking a Research Engineer to advance its world foundation models in autonomous driving. You will collaborate with research scientists to implement AI solutions and optimize large-scale model training.

The ideal candidate will hold a Master’s or PhD in a related field, possess strong programming skills in Python, and have experience with distributed training. This role offers competitive compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in a relevant field with a minimum of 2 years of experience.
• Strong software engineering skills and experience in large-scale deep learning training.
• Hands-on proficiency in data pipelines for multi-modal datasets.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with research scientists to evaluate new architectures and training strategies.
• Build scalable data pipelines for training datasets and optimize large-scale model training.
• Develop tools for dataset inspection and automating workflows.

Skills

Proficiency in Python

Deep learning experience

Large-scale distributed training

Data pipeline development

Education

Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PyTorch

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Toyota Research Institute is seeking a Research Engineer to advance its world foundation models in autonomous driving. You will collaborate with research scientists to implement AI solutions and optimize large-scale model training.

The ideal candidate will hold a Master’s or PhD in a related field, possess strong programming skills in Python, and have experience with distributed training. This role offers competitive compensation and benefits.