Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Machine Learning & System Optimization

Job summary

The Perception team is pioneering the development of a multi-modality foundation model to drive the next generation of autonomous system intelligence.

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Qualifications

• We are looking for experts with hands-on experience compressing, accelerating, and deploying complex models, including LLMs, VLMs, or foundation models, for power- and thermal-constrained vehicle SoCs.
• Deep experience in system and performance optimization in CPU/GPU systems designed for low latency or high throughput.
• Deep expertise in working with real-time systems & required constraints such as processing latency, memory utilization, and memory bandwidth pressure.
• Deep expertise in model quantization (PTQ, QAT) and mixed-precision inference frameworks (INT8, FP8, FP4, BF16/FP16).
• Proficiency in low-level programming for AI accelerators, specifically developing and optimizing custom ML OPs and TensorRT Plugins with efficient CUDA kernel implementations.
• Production-level C++ (14/17/20) and Python programming
• Prior experience in high-performance robotics applications such as AV/drones/robots.
• Familiarity with SOTA autonomous driving perception algorithms (temporal 3D object detection, BEV, 3D Occupancy Networks) and multi-modal sensor processing (Vision, LiDAR, Radar).
• Experience with end-to-end autonomous driving paradigms (VLM/VLA models, Foundation models) and edge deployment

Responsibilities

• You will focus on bringing highly efficient, production-ready large-scale models to our on-vehicle stack.
• In addition, you will optimize ML models, write custom CUDA kernels, and build highly concurrent inference code to ensure real-time, deterministic execution on edge devices.
• IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

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