ML Software Engineer, Online Maps

About the position

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. We're searching for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Online Maps to join Aurora's Maps ML team. The Maps ML team is responsible for providing map data to the Aurora driver in the face of real-time world changes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and Collaborate with other members of the Online Maps autonomy team to improve/ideate and implement perception algorithms that power the Aurora Driver
• Research and develop state-of-the art deep learning/machine learning models to improve our perception solutions under challenging and diverse scenarios
• Develop novel verification and validation technologies and techniques
• Partner with engineers from online maps, simulation, and safety to ensure that online mapping technology is ready for operation with no vehicle operator
• Build infrastructure and tests that support critical go/no go decisions for deploying the Aurora Driver
• Integrate, test, and deploy production-ready solutions into the production code that powers the Aurora Driver

Requirements

• Excellent software engineering skills in Python and/or C++
• Extensive experience in any deep learning framework, such as PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow
• Extensive experience in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or other relevant areas of Artificial Intelligence (e.g., as evidenced by industry experience, publication record)

Nice-to-haves

• Relevant industry experience (prior work on self-driving vehicles, autonomy, and/or robotics projects)
• Contributions to open source project(s)
• Strong track record in any field related to machine learning, as evidenced by top-tier publications
• Examples of relevant fields and conferences: computer vision (e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, IJCV), machine learning (e.g., ICML, NeurIPS, JMLR, PAMI), robotics (e.g., RSS, IJRR), graphics (e.g., SIGGRAPH, TOG

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Equity compensation
• Benefits