Software Engineer, Pony.ai
Deep Learning
$140-250k
Office located in Fremont, CA
Autonomous mobility
Open for applications
Autonomous mobility
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$140-250k
Office located in Fremont, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the transition to widespread autonomous mobility everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Master in Computer Science, or at least 2 years of equivalent industry experience in similar technical fields
- Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, parallel computing, code optimization and large scale data processing
- Experience in applied machine learning including data collection and analysis, evaluation and feature engineering
- Expertise in C++/Python
- Strong communication skills and team spirit
Desirable
- PhD in Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Robotics, Natural Language Processing, or similar technical field of study
- Publications on top-tier conferences like CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/ICLR/ICML/NeurIPS/ICLR/AAAI/IJCV/PAMI
- Experience in applying ML/DL for behavior prediction, imitation learning, motion planning
- Experience in deploying deep learning algorithms for real time applications, with limited computing resources
- Experience in convex optimization, computational geometry or linear algebra
- Experience in GPU/CUDA/TensorRT
What the job involves
- Work with experts in the field of self-driving vehicles on software architecture and design, system and module design, evaluation metrics, specification and implementation of test and regression frameworks
- Design and develop large-scale foundation models trained on vast of real world data
- Frame the open-ended real-world problems into well-defined ML problems; develop and apply cutting-edge ML approaches (deep learning, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, etc) to these problems; scale them to data pipelines; and streamline them to run in real-time on the cars
- Develop and deploy deep learning models, including vision language models (VLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Optimize deep learning models to run robustly under tight run-time constraints
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Insights
-13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- Daily meals and bi-weekly happy hours
- Equity opportunity
- Retirement plans
- Frequent tech talks
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2024
$27m
LATE VC
Oct 2023
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $739m
Our take
Pony.ai is a driverless vehicle manufacturer and developer based in the US and China. Its AI-driven system, which has been tested by over 1.5M autonomous miles, is designed to navigate complex road scenarios using deep learning models. The company has formed strategic partnerships with major manufacturers, including Toyota, FAW Group, and GAC Group.
Founded by two ex-Baidu employees with extensive experience in autonomous driving, Pony.ai aims to improve road safety, as human error accounts for over 90% of traffic accidents in the US. The company is initially focusing on taxis and long-distance freight trucks, with plans to expand the technology to other vehicle types in the future.
In 2022, Pony.ai made history as the first autonomous driving company to receive a taxi license in China. Since then, the company's success has continued, with the recent opening of a Luxembourg R&D center and securing $100M in investments. Building on this momentum, Pony.ai is now focused on challenging Tesla in the domestic autonomous driving market.
Kirsty
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