Senior Research Engineer, Perception

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Santa Clara, CA
Hybrid
150K-190K Annually
1-3 Years Experience
Software
The Role
Collaborate with team to develop algorithms for autonomous vehicles, own projects from ideation to deployment, research novel solutions for real-world challenges, ensure efficiency in compute-constrained environments, and rigorously evaluate model development.
Summary Generated by Built In

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with other members of the Perception team to develop algorithms that can enable the autonomous vehicle to better understand its environment.
  • Develop and maintain multi-modal, multi-view, multi-task end-to-end deep learning models that can help solve various perception objectives like object detection and tracking, and scene understanding.
  • Complete ownership of project from ideation, design, developing data requirements, model training, evaluation and deployment.
  • Research and prototype novel solutions which can help tackle the long-tail of real-world problems in challenging and diverse scenarios (e.g. on highway and local roads, extreme weather conditions, sensor failures, etc).
  • Ensure all model development keeps a real-time focus and operates efficiently in compute-constrained environments.
  • Rigorous approach to model development: running well-designed experiments, defining suitable training and validation datasets, and evaluating on the right metrics.

Required Skills:

  • MS or PhD in CS, EE, mathematics, statistics or related field.
  • 1+ years of experience.
  • Expertise with Python, willingness to do some C++ development as needed.
  • Deep understanding of machine learning principles and methodologies.
  • Experience with implementing and maintaining deep learning pipelines.
  • Experience working on deep learning models in at least one deep learning framework (PyTorch, Tensorflow).

Preferred Skills:

  • Relevant industry experience (prior work on self-driving vehicles, autonomy, computer vision and/or robotics projects).
  • Past experiences in deep learning projects involving object detection, motion tracking or semantic segmentation.
  • In-depth understanding of cutting-edge deep learning techniques and architectures like transformers, CNNs.
  • Experience or familiarity with vision transformers is a plus.

Salary Range

  • $150,000 - $190,000 a year

Our compensations (cash and equity) are determined based on the position, your location, qualifications, and experience.

Top Skills

C++
Python
The Company
HQ: Santa Clara, California
471 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Plus is a global provider of highly automated driving and fully autonomous driving solutions. Named by Forbes as one of America's Best Startup Employers and Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies, Plus's customers are already operating its product on the road today. Working with one of the largest companies in the U.S., vehicle manufacturers and others, Plus is making transportation safer and greener. Plus has received a number of industry awards and distinctions for its transformative technology and business momentum from Fast Company, Insider, Consumer Electronics Show, AUVSI, and others. For more information, visit www.plus.ai

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