Senior, Software Engineer - AutoTagging

Torc; Ann Arbor (MI); Hybrid; USD 161,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus component and stock options

100% paid medical, dental, and vision

401K with 6% employer match

Flexible schedule and generous paidvac

Company-wide holiday closures

AD+D and Life Insurance

Job summary

Torc is hiring for a senior data/ML infrastructure engineer to own the Auto Tagger pipeline. You will write production-grade Python, build scalable data pipelines, and manage CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Databricks workloads, and AWS infrastructure as code.

You will partner with ML engineers to move tagging and classification models into a robust, monitored production pipeline, ensuring data quality and scalable performance for petabyte-scale vehicle logs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience including production data pipelines or ML infrastructure.
• Strong Python skills with production data/ML pipelines experience.
• Hands-on CI/CD experience, GitHub Actions required.
• Experience with Databricks for large-scale data processing and orchestration.
• Experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Experience with large-scale time series or unstructured data.
• Observability tooling experience (Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch).
• Experience deploying ML models into production systems with monitoring and rollback.
• Strong cross-team communication.

Responsibilities

• Integrate and deploy automated event-tagger into production pipelines at scale.
• Build and maintain data engineering pipelines for tagged scenario data.
• Own CI/CD for Auto Tagger using GitHub Actions.
• Write production-grade Python code for ingestion, transformation, modeling, and deployment.
• Build and operate Databricks for data processing and orchestration.
• Design, deploy, and scale AWS infrastructure as code to support high-volume pipelines.
• Instrument pipelines with logging, metrics, and alerting; own on-call for failures and quality regressions.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to productionize tagging and classification models.

Skills

Python

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Databricks

AWS

Terraform/CloudFormation

ML deployment

Observability

Communication

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Databricks

GitHub Actions

Terraform/CloudFormation

AWS

Python

Job description

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

The Auto Tagger team is the engine behind our data flywheel, responsible for translating petabytes of raw, multi-modal vehicle data into a highly curated library of critical driving scenarios. By mining driving logs for long-tail events, we provide the foundational data required for safe autonomous trucking. Leveraging Pegasus logical layers, this team structures and catalogs findings into an observations database that directly accelerates development across autonomous perception, sensor fusion, and generative simulation testing.

What You'll Do

• Integrate and deploy automated event-tagger into production pipelines, running and monitoring tagging tasks at scale across petabytes of vehicle log data.
• Build and maintain the data engineering pipelines that organize, structure, and catalog tagged scenario data into the observations database.
• Own CI/CD for the Auto Tagger pipeline using GitHub Actions, keeping deployments reliable, tested, and repeatable.
• Write production grade code in Python across the pipeline, from data ingestion and transformation through model integration and deployment.
• Build and operate on Databricks for large scale data processing, interactive querying and pipeline orchestration.
• Design, deploy, and scale AWS infrastructure (as code) to support high-volume, distributed processing of vehicle log pipelines — working with structured/tagged outputs and metadata.
• Instrument pipelines with logging, metrics, and alerting; own on-call response for tagging job failures and data quality regressions.
• Partner with ML engineers on the team to take tagging and classification models from development into a scalable, monitored production pipeline.
• Ensure data quality and metadata integrity as tagged events move from raw logs into the observations database used by perception, simulation, and systems teams.
• Troubleshoot and improve pipeline performance, reliability, and cost as data volume and model complexity grow.

What You'll Need to Succeed

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, with 5+ years of software engineering experience, including production data pipeline or ML infrastructure work.
• Strong Python skills, with experience building and maintaining production data or ML pipelines.
• Hands‑on CI/CD experience, GitHub Actions required.
• Required experience with Databricks for large scale data processing and orchestration.
• Required experience with AWS, including infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform or CloudFormation) for provisioning distributed processing infrastructure.
• Experience processing large scale time series or unstructured datasets.
• Experience with observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch) for production pipeline monitoring and alerting.
• Experience integrating and deploying ML models into production systems — serving, monitoring, and rollback, not just training.
• Strong communication skills to work across ML, perception, and simulation teams.

Bonus Points!

• Familiarity with auto‑labeling pipelines, VLMs, or zero‑shot classification for scenario extraction.
• Experience with distributed compute frameworks such as Ray, Spark, or Daft.
• Familiarity with robotics data formats (ROS bags, MCAP) and columnar storage formats (Parquet, Arrow).
• Experience with model serving frameworks such as vLLM or SGLang.
• Familiarity with scenario description standards like Pegasus layers.

Perks of Being a 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
• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full‑time employees
• 401K plan with a 6% employer match
• Flexibility in schedule and generous paid vacation (available immediately after start date)
• Company‑wide holiday office closures
• AD+D and 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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several geographic markets. Pay is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Torc's total compensation package will also include our corporate bonus and stock option plan. Dependent on the position offered, sign‑on payments, relocation, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

Job ID: R-102834

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