Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Auto Tagging
Torc RoboticsVisit Torc Robotics website
Torc Robotics is a Daimler Truck subsidiary developing Level 4 autonomous-driving software and systems for long-haul Freightliner Cascadia trucks.
Blacksburg, United States
About Torc Robotics
Founded in 2005 as Torc Technologies, Torc Robotics commercializes self-driving trucking technology, including its virtual-driver software, for freight operations.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build distributed pipelines that process vehicle data and identify safety-critical driving scenarios. You will develop automated tagging algorithms, structure scenario data, manage database ingestion, collaborate with downstream users, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in a STEM field and 6+ years of data engineering, ML systems, or autonomous data-curation experience.
- Strong Python and SQL skills.
- Machine learning and dataset-curation experience.
- Databricks or similar large-scale analytics platform experience.
- Distributed compute experience with Ray, Spark, or Beam.
- Cloud-platform experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience parsing complex data formats and applying Pegasus layers.
- Technical leadership, architecture, roadmap, mentoring, and stakeholder communication experience.
Responsibilities
- Architect and optimize distributed pipelines for multi-sensor vehicle logs.
- Extract and catalog safety-critical and long-tail driving events.
- Develop heuristic-based and ML-assisted event-tagging algorithms.
- Classify and describe environmental and behavioral scenarios.
- Format scenario data using Pegasus layer standards.
- Manage ingestion of tagged events into the observations database.
- Define interesting scenarios with perception, simulation, and systems engineering stakeholders.
- Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and establish coding standards.
Benefits
- Bonus component and stock options.
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees.
- 401K plan with a 6% employer match.
- Flexible schedule and generous paid vacation available immediately after start date.
- Company-wide holiday office closures.
- AD+D and life insurance.
