Staff Machine Learning Engineer BEV Multi Modal Perception
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
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About the Role
You will lead the technical roadmap for BEV perception models and design multi-modal architectures that combine camera, LiDAR, radar, and map data. You will own training and evaluation workflows, improve model robustness, collaborate on perception interfaces, mentor engineers, and advance 3D-perception research.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in deep learning for perception, 3D vision, or autonomous systems
- Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- BEV modeling
- 3D scene understanding
- Multi-view fusion
- Multi-modal sensor fusion
- Camera and LiDAR integration
- Python
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- Large-scale data pipeline
- Distributed training
- Experiment management
- Technical leadership
- Mentoring
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical roadmap for BEV-based perception models
- Design multi-modal architectures that fuse camera, LiDAR, radar, and HD map data
- Develop foundational perception models
- Own data sampling, augmentation, distributed training, and hyperparameter optimization workflows
- Improve model robustness and generalization for long-tail conditions
- Establish evaluation frameworks for geometric accuracy, temporal stability, and cross-domain transfer
- Collaborate with sensor calibration, mapping, and fusion functions
- Mentor machine learning engineers
- Explore self-supervised learning, pretraining, and foundation models for 3D perception
Benefits
- Bonus component
- Stock options
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees
- 401K plan with a 6% employer match
- Flexible schedule
- Generous paid vacation available immediately after start date
- Company-wide holiday office closures
- AD+D insurance
- Life insurance
