2 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$170k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own prediction improvements within the Planning team, including heuristic logic, learned model collaboration, model outputs, uncertainty, and failure modes.
- Improve prediction-planning interfaces covering confidence, uncertainty, intent representation, and fallback behavior.
- Collaborate on planning improvements for scenarios involving uncertain or changing actor intent.
- Define prediction-quality metrics and evaluation frameworks tied to planning behavior.
- Analyze prediction-related planning failures using logs, simulation, metrics, and scenario-based evaluation.
- Lead technical projects and mentor junior engineers.
Requirements
- Strong experience with behavior prediction, trajectory prediction, actor intent modeling, or related autonomous vehicle prediction problems.
- Strong software engineering skills with proficiency in C++.
- Experience with planning systems and understanding of how prediction affects planning, safety, comfort, and system behavior.
- Ability to analyze complex autonomy failures using logs, metrics, and simulation.
- Strong collaboration skills across Perception, Planning, ML, Simulation, and Systems teams.
- Strong system-level judgment regarding prediction uncertainty, safety, deployment, and heuristic, learned, and hybrid approaches.
- Python proficiency is a plus.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans through Kaiser Permanente, Cigna, and MetLife, including infertility benefits.
- Legal services, identity and fraud protection, hospital indemnity, accident, critical illness, disability, and life insurance benefits.
- Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and generous parental leave policies.
- Office located in Mountain View, California, with a dog-friendly environment, catered lunch, stocked kitchen, and free EV charging.
- Wellbeing benefits including Headspace, Calm, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health, and Rula.
- Fidelity 401(k), commuter benefits, FSA, dependent care FSA, and HSA.
- Referral and patent bonus programs.
Categories
ML EngineeringRobotics
