Senior Software Engineer, Pony.ai
Evaluation
$120-250k
Office located in Fremont, CA
Autonomous mobility
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Autonomous mobility
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$120-250k
Office located in Fremont, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the transition to widespread autonomous mobility everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Strong programming skills in C/C++, Python, and software design
- Strong foundation in mathematics and theoretical computer science, such as linear algebra, calculus, graph theory, computational geometry, combinatorial optimization algorithms, stochastic processes, and complexity analysis
- Possessing solid engineering discipline, or demonstrating strong interest and potential in building large-scale systems, with the ability to maximize performance while keeping complexity and cost to a minimum
- Pursueing a BS/MS or Ph.D in Computer Science or a related field
- Experience in large data set processing and familiarity with real time systems
- Solid experience in a fast-paced and structured engineering environment
- Full stack experience including both front end and back end is preferred
- Statistics analysis experience is preferred
What the job involves
- Design and build end-to-end data processing pipelines and toolchains to support large-scale data collection, batch processing, curation, and multi-dimensional evaluation
- Design and implement high-performance backend services and distributed architectures , capable of handling large-scale real-time event processing
- Collaborate across complex business components to lead the design of targeted system-level evaluation metrics, testing frameworks, and advanced simulation environments
- Leverage and improve industry-leading, open-source distributed technologies to continuously advance infrastructure capabilities and processing efficiency
- Drive critical architectural decisions and technology selection, ensuring rigorous standards for security, stability, scalability, and high performance
- Establish and maintain comprehensive system monitoring, fine-grained observability metrics, and automated alerting frameworks to ensure low latency and reliable production operations
- Build and optimize downstream engineering workflows for Large Language Models (LLMs), programmatically steering model reasoning, establishing guardrails, and mitigating hallucinations to ensure reliable outputs
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 its IPO valuing the company at $7.2 billion. Looking ahead, Pony.ai plans to expand its partnerships in China, moving into the business travel and airport pickup markets. It is now a major challenger for Tesla in the domestic autonomous driving market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2024
$27m
LATE VC
Oct 2023
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $739m
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
Company HQ
Baylands, Fremont, CA
Leadership
James Peng
(Co-Founder & CEO)After a PhD at Stanford, James worked for 7 years as a Google Software Engineer. They spent a further 4 years at Baidu USA as Chief Architect of Autonomous Driving before leaving to co-found Pony.ai in December 2016.
Tiancheng Lou
(Co-Founder & CTO)Received a PhD and B.S. from Tsinghua Univeristy. Began their career at GoogleX, and then became the youngest T10 Engineer at Baidu’s Autonomous Driving Division.
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