Senior Staff Tech Lead, Stack AV
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 revolutionize the transportation industry through the deployment of advanced autonomous systems.
Role
Who you are
- We are focused on building a product so candidates should have a mission-driven mindset to deliver a product, which entails significant cross-functional interaction and customer-centric obsession
- PhD (or 5+ years of experience) in perception related fields, such as Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
- 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 perception/tracking solutions for real-time robotic applications
- Excellent performance-oriented C++ engineering skills
- Experience with automated driving
- Experience working with a GPU (cuda)
- Experience in Deep Learning pipelines
What the job involves
- The Perception team is looking for a lead to build up a team developing and deploying perception components for next generation self driving systems
- This requires developing strong ownership over critical components to being able to understand, experiment, improve, and field state-of-the-art perception systems in real time, safety critical applications
- Identify and develop next generation perception architectures
- Produce a coherent data representation of the environment based on data fusion between map alignment, tracking, drivable area, etc
- Work cross-functionally across perception, mapping, and decision making to ensure autonomy-wide alignment
- Partner with other teams across the company to identify key requirements, dependencies, and prioritize the key use cases that support business outcomes. This includes leading across data collection ops, ML infrastructure, cloud infra, onboard infra, and other partners to ensure e2e delivery of solutions
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 scrutinized 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 of these issues, using AI to create smart supply chains and autonomous driving systems.
Its founding team have long been exploring the possibilities of autonomous transport through combined experience with Uber, and Google smart cars and shared founding roles at Argo AI, a similar company that disbanded in 2022 after it failed to become profitable for shareholders. Hopefully, however, the launch of Stack AV will balance the decades of experience as well as hard lessons learnt from the failed predecessor company and will find new ways to make autonomous driving tech a sustainable investment.
With a staggering $1 billion invested in Stack AV by 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 the high level of early funding that Stack AV did. It’s a promising start then for the Argo AI veterans' new venture.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2023
$1bn
SERIES A
Total funding: $1bn
Company values
- SAFETY - Safety is our top priority. Individually and collectively, we embrace our obligation to be responsible and ensure that safety is our company's bedrock
- HUMILITY - We operate with respect for all, and are humble in our achievements and mistakes. We take ownership of our conduct, embrace one another's differences, and uphold an environment of kindness and dignity
- We operate with respect for all, and are humble in our achievements and mistakes. We take ownership of our conduct, embrace one another's differences, and uphold an environment of kindness and dignity
- GRIT - The path to success is rarely straight or smooth. We succeed as a team through disciplined execution, working together to understand the problems at a fundamental level and developing thoughtful and practical solutions
- EXCELLENCE - As a team, we execute and deliver a world class product that brings value to our customers by solving their critical business needs in a safe and efficient manner. Our accomplishments together are greater than any effort individually
- TRANSPARENCY - We are transparent and honest about the facts of our execution and hold ourselves accountable to drive real, continuous improvement through our work and to foster public trust and support of our products and services
- PASSION - We are passionate about our mission, and our culture. Our passion motivates our success and creates an environment where our teams thrive
Company HQ
Downtown, Pittsburgh, PA
Articles
Leadership
Brian Salesky
(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
(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
(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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