Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Vehicle Perception
Woven by Toyota2 months ago
Base Salary
$140k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop perception foundation models for autonomous vehicles that unify diverse sensor data for scalable 3D scene understanding.
- Deploy scalable and efficient machine learning models on the autonomous vehicle platform.
- Develop components across end-to-end ML training and deployment, including data strategy, optimization, validation, and inference.
- Create state-of-the-art deep learning solutions using scientific and critical-thinking methods.
- Collaborate with Perception, Motion Planning, Simulation, Infrastructure, and Tooling teams.
- Integrate modern technologies while meeting rigorous safety standards and cost-efficiency goals.
Requirements
- MS or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent industry experience.
- At least 3 years of experience with Python, a major deep learning framework such as PyTorch, and software engineering best practices.
- At least 3 years of experience with supervised or unsupervised learning, transfer learning, multi-task learning, and/or deep reinforcement learning.
- At least 3 years of experience across ML workflows including data sampling, curation, preprocessing, training, ablation studies, evaluation, deployment, and inference optimization.
- Experience with large-scale foundation models, pretraining, multimodal architectures, and self-supervised learning.
- Deep understanding of runtime complexity, distributed and cloud ML infrastructure, data pipeline architecture, and resource-aware optimization.
- Ability to write C++ for integration with an autonomous vehicle platform.
- Strong leadership and communication skills.
- Preferred: top-tier research publications, large-scale ML deployment in self-driving or related fields, offboard or auto-labeling pipelines, active learning, ground-truth-free evaluation, vision-language models, world models, video prediction, latent dynamics models, model distillation, embedded deployment, and self-driving domains such as perception, prediction, mapping, localization, planning, or simulation.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring presence in the Nihonbashi, Palo Alto, or Ann Arbor office three days per week.
- Health, wellness, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401k program.
- Flexible vacation policy.
- Family planning and care benefits.
- Base salary is supplemented by short-term and long-term incentives and a comprehensive benefits package.
Categories
ML EngineeringRobotics
About Woven by Toyota
Woven by Toyota develops software for automated driving, advanced driver assistance, and software-defined vehicles, primarily for Toyota and its partners. Its products include Arene (a vehicle software platform), AD/ADAS technologies, and the Woven City test course, supported by cloud and AI infrastructure. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Chuo-ku, Tokyo, it operates as a Toyota Motor Corporation subsidiary focused on vehicle software and mobility systems.