Robotics Engineer II

• →Train, Integrate and Test Machine Learning models for on-vehicle Autonomy software
• →Optimize and Monitor on-vehicle software for maximum reliability and minimum latency
• →Coordinate and execute on-vehicle tests to validate performance of Autonomous Vehicle software in real-world scenarios
• →Diagnose and root-cause issues reported by commercial operations through the May Field Response process
• →Design and oversee data collection strategies to address ML model deficiencies 
• →Develop tools and visualizations to enable support engineers to analyze performance of behavior and control subsystems from field data

Candidates most successful in this role typically hold the following qualifications or comparable knowledge or experience:

• 2+ years experience with robotics software for physical systems in a commercial environment
• Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a field that requires a strong mathematical and/or engineering foundation (e.g. physics, aerospace engineering)
• Basic understanding of ML model concepts such as training, architectures, and data selection
• Functional understanding of lidar, camera and/or radar perception systems and their hardware interfaces
• Strong programming skills in C/C++/Python in a Linux environment
• Functional proficiency with Software concepts such as memory management, threading, databases and networking
• Familiarity with standard development tools such as git, valgrind, and gdb

• Familiarity with common Perception, Planning and Foundation model concepts in Autonomous Driving.
• Experience deploying ML models to resource-constrained hardware
• Experience with CUDA and GPU processing techniques
• Proficiency with hard example mining, active learning or dataset composition techniques
• Experience calculating metrics for and evaluating autonomous vehicle models
• Experience building training and evaluation pipelines for large data (>100TB) or large model (>100GB) applications

• Standard office working conditions which includes but is not limited to:
• Prolonged sitting
• Prolonged standing
• Prolonged computer use

• Travel required? -  Minimal: 1%-10%