Staff AI Systems Engineer - Autonomous Driving Tech Lead

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k) with matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Life and disability protection

Job summary

Bosch is hiring a Staff AI Systems Engineer to lead AI-driven ADAS and Autonomous Driving initiatives. You will set technical direction across multiple teams and elevate engineering standards.

The role requires expertise in Python/C++, big data, robotics logging formats, and cloud platforms; you will collaborate with autonomy software leads, validation engineers, and cloud infra to deliver safe, reliable self-driving capabilities.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 5+ years of progressive engineering experience in software development, data analytics infrastructure, or automated testing for autonomous vehicles, robotics, or complex distributed systems.
• 2+ years of experience leading technical architecture, setting engineering strategy, or guiding technical direction across multiple engineering teams.
• Expert proficiency in Python and C++, with demonstrated experience building production‑grade data pipelines, distributed execution frameworks, or testing infrastructure.
• Hands‑on experience working with big data structures, robotics logging formats (e.g., ROS/ROS2, MCAP, Protobuf, CAN logs), and cloud data storage.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale intelligent failure triaging and automated RCA frameworks capable of processing petabyte-scale simulation and real‑world vehicle logs.
• Apply modern AI/ML methods (e.g., LLMs/VLMs, time‑series anomaly detection, statistical pattern recognition, and causal inference) to automatically isolate failure modes across perception, planning, control, and vehicle platform layers.
• Integrate automated triaging into CI, regression testing, and cloud replay pipelines (SiL/HiL/ViL) to streamline software release cycles and raise validation standards across engineering groups.
• Establish best practices for log data structures, automated analytics workflows, vector search/embeddings for failure mode retrieval, and ML pipeline reliability.
• Partner directly with autonomy software leads, validation engineers, and cloud infrastructure teams to align toolsets and integrate automated diagnostics into day‑to‑day R&D workflows.

Skills

Python

C++

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

ROS/ROS2

Education

Master’s or Ph.D. in CS/CE/Robotics/EE

Tools

PySpark

Ray

Databricks/Snowflake

Vector DBs

Apache Airflow

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP

Job description

Bosch is hiring a Staff AI Systems Engineer to lead AI-driven ADAS and Autonomous Driving initiatives. You will set technical direction across multiple teams and elevate engineering standards.

The role requires expertise in Python/C++, big data, robotics logging formats, and cloud platforms; you will collaborate with autonomy software leads, validation engineers, and cloud infra to deliver safe, reliable self-driving capabilities.