Senior, Software Engineer - AutoTagging
Torc Roboticsabout 2 hours ago
Base Salary
$161k - $193k/yr
Responsibilities
- Integrate and deploy automated event-taggers into production pipelines processing petabytes of vehicle log data
- Build and maintain data engineering pipelines that organize and catalog tagged scenario data in the observations database
- Own CI/CD for the Auto Tagger pipeline using GitHub Actions
- Write production-grade Python code for ingestion, transformation, model integration, and deployment
- Build and operate Databricks processing, querying, and orchestration workflows
- Design, deploy, and scale AWS infrastructure as code for distributed vehicle-log processing
- Instrument pipelines with logging, metrics, and alerting and provide on-call response for failures and data quality regressions
- Partner with ML engineers to productionize scalable, monitored tagging and classification models
- Maintain data quality and metadata integrity across raw logs and the observations database
- Troubleshoot and improve pipeline performance, reliability, and cost
Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including production data pipeline or ML infrastructure work
- Strong Python skills and experience building and maintaining production data or ML pipelines
- Hands-on CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions required
- Required experience with Databricks for large-scale data processing and orchestration
- Required AWS experience, including infrastructure-as-code with Terraform or CloudFormation
- Experience processing large-scale time series or unstructured datasets
- Experience with observability tooling such as Datadog, Grafana, or CloudWatch
- Experience integrating and deploying ML models into production systems, including serving, monitoring, and rollback
- Strong communication skills for collaboration across ML, perception, and simulation teams
- Bonus: familiarity with auto-labeling pipelines, VLMs, or zero-shot classification
- Bonus: experience with Ray, Spark, or Daft
- Bonus: familiarity with ROS bags, MCAP, Parquet, or Arrow
- Bonus: experience with vLLM or SGLang
- Bonus: familiarity with Pegasus layers
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package including a bonus component and stock options
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees
- 401(k) plan with a 6% employer match
- Flexible schedule and generous paid vacation available immediately after the start date
- Company-wide holiday office closures
- AD&D and life insurance
Tech Stack
About Torc Robotics
Torc Robotics, headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia, offers a complete autonomous software solution for the trucking/freight industry. Torc was acquired by Daimler – the largest heavy-duty truck manufacturer in North America – in August 2019. We are working together to develop highly automated trucks to improve the safety and efficiency of transporting goods. We are experts in providing autonomous vehicle solutions and we partner with other industry leaders to bring this new technology to work in the real world. Our mission is to drive the future of freight through safer roads and the efficient transport of critical goods. #TorcDriven #TorcRobotics