[Remote] Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. May Mobility develops autonomous vehicles and mobility systems designed to make transportation safer, greener, and more accessible. The Lead Machine Learning Engineer will enhance machine learning capabilities for autonomous driving, simulation, and platform systems by designing advanced models, leading engineering teams, and defining large-scale data and evaluation practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, train and evaluate state of the art models for May's autonomous driving, simulation and ML Platform stack
• Leverage emerging techniques in the End-to-End driving, Vision Language Action (VLA), World or Foundation model domains to solve commercial-scale problems
• Lead small teams of cross functional Engineers beyond the state of the art
• Define data balance, training experiment and evaluation practices to train efficiently at petabyte scale

Skills

• * Direct experience architecting & training VLA, MMLM, or Generative World Models for commercial-scale applications
• * Experience composing, processing and characterizing large (>100TB) multi-modal datasets
• * Experience analyzing and addressing long-tail failure cases in large models
• * Experience leading teams of 2-3 Engineers and communicating technical details to interdisciplinary leadership
• * Extensive practical experience in one of the following domains: + Vision Language Action Models + Generative World Models + Foundation Models in Robotics + Data Centric AI
• * A minimum of 4 years of industry experience working on commercial robotics systems
• * A minimum of 1 year mentoring ML Engineers in a commercial or lab environment
• * Master's degree in Robotics, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering, or a field that requires a strong mathematical and/or engineering foundation
• * Practical experience handling the "Long Tail" problem in Machine Learning
• * Strong programming skills in Python/PyTorch in a Linux environment
• * Functional understanding of LiDAR, Camera and Radar processing techniques
• * Standard office working conditions which includes but is not limited to: + Prolonged sitting + Prolonged standing + Prolonged computer use
• * Travel required? - Low: 5%-10%
• * PhD and/or published research in the described specialty domains
• * Familiar with common post-training techniques
• * Experience deploying models to resource constrained and edge hardware
• * Functional understanding of C/C++/CUDA memory and threading models

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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