Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Vehicle Perception
Woven by ToyotaBase 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.
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About Woven by Toyota
Woven by Toyota exists to accelerate Toyota’s once-in-a-century transformation from a car company into a mobility company. Rooted in a legacy of reinvention, we carry forward a singular founding principle: to innovate for the benefit of others. Today, we are driving this transformation from two vantage points: redefining how vehicles are built, experienced, and connected to the world to realize a true software-defined vehicle, and reimagining how people, goods, information, and energy move and interact in society to empower individuals from all walks of life. Through these two lenses, we combine bold innovation with real-world execution, bridging the gap between present and future to help Toyota evolve its business and its role in society.