Job Summary:
Torc Robotics is a leader in autonomous driving technology, focused on developing software for automated trucks. The Senior ML Engineer - Offline Perception will design and implement object detection and tracking modules, guide project execution, and enhance data processing capabilities to support analytics models.
Responsibilities:
• Design, implement, test and deploy offline object detection, tracking and fusion modules to automatically create annotations on Cloud Services from logged sensor data (Cameras, Lidars, Radars)
• Demonstrated project management skills, serving as project lead guiding less experienced team members in multiple facets of project execution.
• Stay up to date with the latest developments in AI and ML for autonomous driving.
• Independently develop offline perception models or algorithms using disciplined software development processes, making recommendations for developing new code or re-using existing code, implementing version control, and maintaining
• Documentation of created applications.
• Define and implement ingestion, data preparation, curation, and governance of large, multi-faceted data sets supporting analytics models and workflows.
• Proactively assess current capabilities to identify areas for improvement proposing solutions that align with core strategy and operation.
• Measure and track auto labeling quality to meet internal customer requirements.
• Guide and produce information products, supporting visualization and data accessibility in a customer-centric manner.
• Evaluate and make recommendations regarding technical advances that improve productivity and quality, reduce flow times, and enhance operational surety.
• Develop guidelines and standards for analytics and machine learning models, their deployment, and associated processes.
• Provides technical guidance or business process expertise, technical leadership, coaching and mentoring to team members.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or related technical field plus demonstrates competences and technical proficiencies typically acquired through 6+ years of experience OR;
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or related technical field plus demonstrates competences and technical proficiencies typically acquired through 3+ years of experience OR;
• Doctorate Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or related technical field plus demonstrates competences and technical proficiencies typically acquired through 1+ years of experience.
• Active Learning & Pseudo-labeling - Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Model training.
• Two of the following: 2D/3D Object Detection, Tracking, Sensor Fusion, Semantic Segmentation, SLAM, BEV.
• Scaled ML Operations (MLOps) and Tooling – ML Frameworks, experiment tracking, model registry, MLFLow, Weights and Biases, ML Metrics and Evaluation / Quality.
• Distributed machine learning frameworks - PyTorch, Lightning, Ray.
• Model Data Curation - Parquet data processing (PyArrow, Daft, Pandas, etc).
• Development Tools & Eco-System (at scale) - Proficiency in Python software development. Also, VDI and cloud-based development environments, CI Systems (GitHub Actions), and Docker.
• Knowledge of English is required since the selected candidate will need to collaborate daily with English-speaking colleagues in the United States and work with technical documentation written exclusively in English.
Preferred:
• Data operations and management at scale - Schema design, AWS storage and processing infra, vector databases / LanceDB, file formats (MCAP, parquet, etc).
• Data Visualization - Integration with tooling such as OpenGL, 3.js, foxglove, 51, tableau.
• Cloud Development – Python (proficient level), Terraform, AWS Managed Services (eg S3, ECS, Lambda, Dynamo, Step Functions, Athena).
• Cloud-based orchestration and resource management - AWS Hyperpods, Anyscale, Etc. Model Inference Orchestration.
Company:
Torc provides L4 end-to-end self-driving software for mobility, trucking, mining, and defense markets through strategic partnerships Founded in 2005, the company is headquartered in Blacksburg, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.