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Avride

Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
AustinTexasUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Aug 20, 2025
Full-time

Machine Learning Engineer – Motion Planning & Prediction

Job description

We build the software that decides how our autonomous vehicles move through the world. Our systems predict the behavior of pedestrians, cyclists, and other vehicles, then plan trajectories that are safe, comfortable, and legible to the people around them. We work at the intersection of machine learning, large-scale data infrastructure, and real-time vehicle control, collaborating across engineering, analytics, and product teams to deliver safe and intelligent driving capabilities.

Before you apply: This role requires hands-on experience building systems that predict how other agents will move and deciding how a vehicle or robot should act in response — deployed on real hardware, not only in…

Job responsibilities

  • Design, train, and deploy models for behavioral prediction and motion planning that run on vehicles in real traffic
  • Model multi-agent interaction and temporal dynamics — how a merge, an unprotected left, or an occluded pedestrian actually unfolds
  • Own the metrics: build evaluation frameworks that correlate with real on-road safety and performance, not just offline loss
  • Diagnose long-tail failures from real driving logs and close the loop back into training data and model design
  • Optimize trained models for real-time inference under strict latency, memory, and compute constraints on embedded hardware
  • Build and maintain data pipelines that process, clean, and label large-scale vehicle sensor and simulation datasets

Job requirements

  • Hands-on experience with at least one of: behavioral or trajectory prediction, motion planning, decision-making under uncertainty, or closely adjacent autonomy work (navigation, SLAM, control, or…
  • Experience deploying machine learning to real hardware operating in the physical world , under real-time or resource constraints. Simulation-only or offline-only experience does not meet this bar.

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