Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Autonomy

Woven by Toyota is the mobility technology subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation. Our mission is to deliver safe, intelligent, human-centered mobility for all. Through our Arene mobility software platform, safety-first automated driving technology and Toyota Woven City — our test course for advanced mobility — we’re bringing greater freedom, safety and happiness to people and society. 
Our unique global culture weaves modern Silicon Valley innovation and time-tested Japanese quality craftsmanship. We leverage these complementary strengths to amplify the capabilities of drivers, foster happiness, and elevate well-being.
TeamAt Woven by Toyota, we tackle Autonomy challenges at the intersection of AI, Robotics, and Advanced Driving. Our work involves a variety of challenges, such as analyzing petabytes of multimodal driving data, solving optimization problems in computer vision, minimizing latency on hardware accelerators, deploying scalable and efficient machine learning (ML) training and evaluation pipelines, and designing novel neural network architectures to advance state-of-the-art ML for Perception, Prediction, and Motion Planning. We are looking for doers and creative problem solvers to join us in improving mobility for everyone with human-centered automated driving solutions for personal and commercial applications.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?The team is looking for a skilled Machine Learning Engineer to help advance a cutting-edge machine learning system for perception, prediction, and motion planning in autonomous driving. You will have the chance to design and implement innovative machine learning models for our next-generation autonomous vehicle platform, influencing millions of Toyota production vehicles. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about self-driving car technology and its potential impact on humanity.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and develop advanced machine learning models specifically tailored for autonomous vehicles utilizing deep learning and large-scale data analysis.
• Deploy scalable and efficient ML models on our autonomous vehicle platform.
• Integrate modern technologies with rigorous safety standards while maintaining cost efficiency.
• Significantly contribute to development of needed components for end-to-end ML training and deployment, from data strategy to optimization and validation.
• Be a champion of the scientific method and critical thinking in inventing state-of-the-art deep learning solutions
• Work in a high-velocity environment and employ agile development practices.
• Exhibit a "Giver" mindset, proactively asking, “What can I do for you?” to facilitate production development processes while maintaining a "get things done" mentality.
• Collaborate closely with teams such as Perception, Motion Planning, Simulation, Infrastructure, and Tooling to drive unified solutions.
• Work in a hybrid workspace, with the requirement to be present in our Nihonbashi (Japan), Palo Alto (California), or Ann Arbor (Michigan) offices three days per week.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• MS or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Robotics or related quantitative fields, or equivalent industry experience.
• 3+ years of  experience with Python, any major deep learning framework, and software engineering best practices
• Comfortable in writing C++ code to help integrate with our autonomous vehicle platform.
• 2+ years of experience with deep learning approaches such as supervised/unsupervised learning, transfer learning, multi-task learning, and/or deep reinforcement learning.
• 2+ years of experience covering machine learning workflows, data sampling and curation, pre-processing, model training, ablation studies, evaluation, deployment, and inference optimization.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate concepts clearly and precisely.

NICE TO HAVES

• Published research at top-tier conferences (NeurIPs, CVPR and similar).
• Proven track record of deploying ML models at scale in self-driving or related fields.
• Familiarity with production-level coding in time-limited task schedules.
• Experience with computer vision (e.g.multi-view geometry, camera calibration, depth estimation, neural radiance fields, gaussian splatting, simultaneous localization and mapping) 
• Experience with robot motion planning (e.g., trajectory optimization, sampling-based planning, model predictive control) 
• Experience with temporal data and/or sequential modeling.
• Experience in self-driving challenges (Perception, Prediction, Mapping, Localization, Planning, Simulation).

For California: The base pay for this position ranges from $140,000- $230,000 a year
Your base salary is one part of your total compensation. We offer a base salary, short term and long term incentives, and a comprehensive benefits package. The total compensation offered to an employee will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and level.
WHAT WE OFFERWe are committed to creating a modern work environment that supports our employees and their loved ones. We offer many options of the best programs to allow you to do your most meaningful work and to help you shape the future of mobility.・Excellent health, wellness, dental and vision coverage・A rewarding 401k program・Flexible vacation policy・Family planning and care benefits
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