Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Stack AV
Dynamic World Perception
Autonomous systems for the transportation industry
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Autonomous systems for the transportation industry
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To revolutionise the transportation industry through the deployment of advanced autonomous systems.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience architecting, training, and deploying deep learning models into real-world environments
- Track record of driving applied research projects from start to completion, including conception, problem definition, experimentation, iteration, and finally publication or productization
- Experience delivering detection, segmentation, and/or tracking solutions for real-time robotic applications
- Prior experience in sensor fusion is highly desirable
- Strong experience in software engineering and machine learning algorithm design
- Strength in C++ and experience with Python
What the job involves
- The Dynamic World Perception team is responsible for real-time detection of road actors and properties
- This includes developing occupancy networks and other perception algorithms to accurately identify and classify all dynamic elements within the driving environment
- We're looking for a Staff or Senior Engineer to lead the development, maintenance, and enhancement of our long-range detection capabilities, ensuring the required safety and performance standards are met or exceeded
- Work in the team to deliver state-of-the-art long-range detection capabilities
- Contribute to expansion and fusion of existing detection models to support long-range performance
- Contribute to improvement of model frameworks, architecture, and data pipelines
- Develop robust software for onboard vehicle deployment, optimizing for real-time, resource-constrained, and safety-critical environments
- Drive highly cross-functional features and work streams from problem statement to delivery
- Contribute to the technical direction of the team and broader perception org
- Align stakeholders with strong presentation and communication skills
- Lead challenging technical topics and build consensus
Our take
Driver shortages, decelerating efficiency and broad safety concerns have plagued the US trucking industry for some time now. High operating costs paired with increasingly scrutinised high emissions are leading to concern over the future of the logistics and goods transport market. Stack AV’s autonomous trucking solution aims to lighten the load on these issues, utilising AI to build smart supply chains and autonomous driving systems.
Its founding team has long been exploring the possibilities of autonomous transport through combined experience with Uber and Google smart cars and shared founding roles at Argo AI. This similar company disbanded in 2022 after it failed to become profitable for shareholders. Hopefully, however, the launch of Stack AV will balance the founders' decades of experience and the hard lessons learnt from the failed predecessor company, opening the road to new ways to make autonomous driving tech a sustainable investment.
With a staggering $1 billion investment from SoftBank in 2023, the company is well-armoured for the time being. Its main competitor is Aurora, which underwent a successful IPO in 2021 but never achieved this high level of early funding. It’s a promising start, then for the Argo AI veterans' venture.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2023
$1bn
SERIES A
Total funding: $1bn
Company HQ
Downtown, Pittsburgh, PA
Leadership
Brian Salesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously CEO of Argo AI, Director of Hardware Development for self-driving cars at Google, Principal Commercialization Specialist at the National Robotics Engineering Center, and Technical Program Manager at Google.
Peter Rander
(Co-Founder & President)Previously President and Co-Founder at Argo AI, Engineering Lead at Uber and Principal Commercialization Specialist at the National Robotics Engineering Center.
Brett Browning
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously CTO at Argo AI, Senior Engineering Manager at Uber Advanced Technologies Center, Co-Founder at Mine Vision Systems and a Senior Systems Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University.
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