Transforming cities through autonomous technology to create a safer, greener, more accessible world.
Lead ML/Perception Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
12 hours ago
Salary
$235K - $275K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Lead ML/Perception Engineer
May Mobility
• Work independently with cross-functional teams to develop software and system requirements. • Lead major architectural updates to the perception stack, including system-level design, modularization, and migration strategies that improve scalability, latency, and maintainability across the fleet. • Design, develop, and own scene detection and activation capabilities, classifying the operating scene/scenario and triggering the appropriate perception behaviors and operational design domain (ODD) logic at runtime. • Improve perception robustness under degradation and adverse weather, including sensor fault detection, health monitoring, graceful degradation, and fallback strategies for rain, snow, fog, glare, low-light, and sensor soiling/occlusion conditions. • Design, implement, and test state-of-the-art perception features on time with high quality, industrial-grade production code. • Integrate large-scale multi-modal models (including but not limited to VLMs and LLMs) into the perception stack to improve semantic scene understanding and reasoning. • Track and trend technical performance of perception in the field. • Lead major feature development including feature design, code reviews, issue diagnosis, and resolution. • Lead extensive testing to validate features and satisfy release schedules. • Lead development related to data, development, and ML pipelines, specifically focused on multimodal data alignment for training foundation models.
Job Requirements
- A minimum of 5+ years of industry experience working on real-world robot systems maintaining high-quality industrial-grade code.
- Master's degree in Robotics, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering, or a field that requires a strong mathematical and/or engineering foundation.
- Demonstrated experience leading or making major architectural decisions for a perception, robotics, or autonomy software stack.
- Strong programming skills in C/C++/Python; software development in Linux environments.
- Strong experience in ML/DL development with PyTorch/TensorFlow.
- Direct experience developing or fine-tuning large-scale multi-modal models (e.g., multi-sensor fusion models, foundation models, including VLM backbones) for real-world perception applications.
- Experience working on a combination of several of the following real-time areas:
- Computer Vision: object detection, classification, segmentation.
- Semantic scene understanding, scene/scenario detection, and open-vocabulary detection.
- Perception robustness in degraded or adverse-weather conditions.
- Multi-target tracking and sensor fusion.
- Extensive experience deploying features/ML/DL models in real-time systems with high accuracy and low latency.
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare suite including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans. Domestic partners who have been residing together at least one year are also eligible to participate.
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Healthcare and Dependent Care Accounts available.
- Rich retirement benefits, including an immediately vested employer safe harbor match.
- Generous paid parental leave as well as a phased return to work.
- Flexible vacation policy in addition to paid company holidays.
- Total Wellness Program providing numerous resources for overall wellbeing
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