Tech Lead, Autonomy Systems

1X Technologies; San Carlos (CA); On-site; USD 199,763 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Standard corporate benefits

Job summary

1X Technologies is seeking a skilled professional to train machine learning models for robotic navigation, manipulation, and locomotion. You will implement scalable infrastructure to train on larger data and compute resources, and advance algorithms to improve sample efficiency and generalization.

You will collaborate with the data collection and software teams to refine evaluation, calibration, and timing of the robotics stack.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 3 years of experience in the role or related field.

Responsibilities

• Train machine learning models for robotic navigation, manipulation, and locomotion.
• Implement infrastructure to scale data engine training on more data and compute.
• Develop algorithmic advances to improve sample efficiency and generalization of models.
• Collaborate with data collection to improve evaluation processes.
• Interview and assist in hiring for the AI team.
• Work with software team to improve calibration and timing in robotics stack.
• Speed up data loader to increase training speeds.
• Develop data inspection tools to interpret AI models.

Skills

Robotics software

Machine Learning

Python

GPU programming

Computer Vision

NLP

Education

Master’s degree in CS

Job description

Salary: $199,763 to $350,000/yr; 40 hours/week; standard corporate benefits apply,

Job Description

Train machine learning models for robotic navigation, manipulation, and locomotion. Implement infrastructure to scale up the data engine’s ability to train on more data and more compute. Develop algorithmic advances to improve our models’ sample efficiency and generalization capability. Work with the data collection team to improve their efficiency and evaluation processes. Interview hiring candidates for the AI team. Working with the software team to improve calibration and timing correctness of the robotics stack. Speeding up the data loader to increase training speeds. Implement data inspection tools to interpret AI models better. International travel required, 20%.

Requirements

Master’s degree or foreign degree equivalent in Computer Science or equivalent or related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or related role.

Skills

Experience and/or education must include:

• Writing software to control robots for inverse kinematics, control regimes, camera calibration and linear algebra;
• Machine Learning, training neural networks to automate various tasks using humanoid robots;
• Coding and Software Engineering, training neural networks;
• Writing Python programming;
• GPU programming, Computer Vision, and Deep Learning;
• Open-ended research, Natural Language Processing, and Linear Algebra.