Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Behaviors

Motional; United States; Remote; USD 146,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company dedicated to revolutionizing transportation with autonomous vehicles. As part of an innovative team, you'll work alongside world-class engineers and scientists to develop cutting-edge machine learning models that enhance the safety and efficiency of robotaxis. This role offers the chance to tackle complex challenges in a rapidly evolving industry, contributing to the creation of technology that positively impacts communities and transforms how we move. If you're passionate about driving change and eager to grow in your career, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• In-depth understanding of ML and DL algorithms essential for autonomous driving.
• Experience with neural networks for motion planning and object detection.

Responsibilities

• Train, evaluate, and deploy ML models for scene understanding and behavior prediction.
• Design experiments and maintain high-quality training codebase.

Skills

Machine Learning

Deep Learning

Neural Networks

Software Engineering Principles

Data Analysis

Mentoring

Problem Solving

Education

Masters in Machine Learning

PhD in Computer Science

Tools

PyTorch

C++

CUDA

Job description

On Behaviors, you'll have the opportunity to work with world-class ML engineers and research scientists to make self-driving vehicles a reality and create positive social impact. Our team works on the tech stack responsible for understanding highly complex driving scenes and generating safe, comfortable driving trajectories for our robotaxi using the latest deep neural networks. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about Level 5 autonomous driving, excited by intellectual challenges, and interested in pursuing career growth with a fast growing company.

What You’ll Be Doing:

You will be directly responsible for training, evaluation, and deployment of our ML-based scene understanding, behavior prediction, and planning models. Day to day responsibilities include:

• Designing and executing high value experiments based on collaborative input from other machine learning engineers
• Prototyping and implementing continuously improving metrics to evaluate the performance of our behavioral models across many desired scenarios and robotaxi capabilities
• Timely release of major model updates, including analysis of both off-line and on-road evaluation data
• Staying up to date with the latest trends in our fast moving industry, and proposing new architectures and network designs based on published literature
• Maintaining a high quality training and evaluation code-base, including portions of our training stack dedicated to dataset generation and evaluation

What We’re Looking For:

• In-depth understanding of common Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms
• Experience designing, training, and analyzing neural networks for at least one of the following applications: motion planning, object detection, sensor fusion, motion prediction, and/or multi-object tracking
• Strong track record of tackling less well-defined problems, and executing efficiently to deliver the successful outcome
• Advanced knowledge of software engineering principles including software design, source control management, build processes, code reviews, and testing methods
• Experience with PyTorch or other python-based deep learning frameworks
• Experience working with large data sets and deriving insights from data
• Experience mentoring and collaborating with others

Education
Masters or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or a related field; or equivalent industry experience

Bonus Points

• Publications in relevant conferences (CVPR, ICML, NeurIPS, ICCV, ICL, etc.)
• PhD in machine learning, computer vision, or robotics vision
• Experience working on autonomous vehicles or related fields
• Experience in deploying models into real-world environments
• Strong programming skills in C++ and/or CUDA programming

Working Conditions

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to convey and detect communication. The employee occasionally required to remain stationary at times for up to 50% of working time, move in designated working areas; & operate and use office equipment. The employee may occasionally move up to 50 pounds.

Salary Range
$146,000 — $225,000 USD

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We’re driven by something more.

Our journey is always people first.

We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to live, work, and connect. Our team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential to transform the way we move.

Higher purpose, greater impact.

We’re creating first-of-its-kind technology that will transform transportation. To do so successfully, we must design for everyone in our cities and on our roads. We believe in building a great place to work through a progressive, global culture that is diverse, inclusive, and ensures people feel valued at every level of the organization. Diversity helps us to see the world differently; it’s not only good for our business, it’s the right thing to do.

Scale up, not starting up.

Our team is behind some of the industry's largest leaps forward, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world's first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world's longest-standing public robotaxi fleet. We’re driven to scale; we’re moving towards commercialization of our technology, and we need team members who are ready to embrace change and challenges.

Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives. Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S and Asia. For more information, visit www.Motional.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn,Instagram and YouTube.

Motional AD Inc. is an EOE. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To comply with Federal Law, we participate in E-Verify. All newly-hired employees are queried through this electronic system established by the DHS and the SSA to verify their identity and employment eligibility.