Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Reinforcement Learning), Motion Planning

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy learned behavior planning models using approaches such as reinforcement learning, behavior cloning, and imitation learning
• Own end-to-end Reinforcement Learning pipeline from environment construction, training, and modeling.
• Contribute to Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure to facilitate large-scale distributed training
• Track model training, analyze model performance, identify failure modes to improve generalization across driving scenarios
• Collaborate with simulation and planning teams to deploy learned behavior planning models to driving pipelines

Job requirements

• MS or PhD in Computer/Software Engineering, Robotics, Machine Learning or related field.
• Experience developing production code in C/C++ and Python
• Experience with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch
• Experience with reinforcement learning
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Experience with high-throughput batched driving simulators such as GPUDrive and PufferDrive
• Experience with self-play reinforcement learning
• Experience with sim-to-real in the context of robotics / autonomous driving