Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI Infrastructure, Autonomy

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We are looking for a full-time Machine Learning Engineer, with deep knowledge and strong enthusiasm towards establishing a state-of-art AI infrastructure for training very large foundation models and accelerating model training/inference. Our mission is to solve the autonomous driving problem. You will work with a team of talented software engineers, machine learning engineers and research scientists to push the boundary of state-of-art machine learning models which will enable the next-generation E2E solution of autonomous driving.

• Design, train, and deploy large deep learning models that can leverage the vast amount of labeled and unlabeled data from a fleet of million vehicles
• Improve ecosystem for training infrastructure and deployment pipeline to accelerate model iteration and improve performance.

• PhD in CS/CE/EE, or equivalent, in industry experience
• Deep knowledge of PyTorch
• Experience with Cuda or Triton language for writing custom ops
• Knowledge of model training framework (e.g. PyTorch Lightning)
• In-depth knowledge of transformer architecture and ways to accelerate the training and inference of transformer models
• Experience of performing large scale distributed training of models
• A track record of profiling model and doing detective work to improve model training and inference speed

• Previous experience in the autonomous driving industry
• Knowledge of Nvidia TensorRT
• Experience with edge computing systems
• Knowledge of model optimization including quantization, pruning, etc.

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