Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Vehicle Perception
Palo Alto, CA
- Pay
$140,000–230,000/year · Base — pay source
Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate concepts clearly and precisely. The base pay for this position ranges from $140,000 - $230,000 a year. Your base salary is one part of your total compensation. We offer a base salary, short term and long term incentives, and a comprehensive benefits package. The total compensation offered to an employee will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and level.
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What you’ll work on
Full postingLead / influence the design and development of perception foundation models for autonomous vehicles, unifying diverse sensor data for scalable 3D scene understanding
Design and develop advanced perception models for the autonomy stack, utilizing deep learning and large-scale data analysis.
Work in a high-velocity environment and employ agile development practices.
From the employer’s posting
RESPONSIBILITIES Lead / influence the design and development of perception foundation models for autonomous vehicles, unifying diverse sensor data for scalable 3D scene understanding Design and develop advanced perception models for the autonomy stack, utilizing deep learning and large-scale data analysis.
Lead / influence the design and development of perception foundation models for autonomous vehicles, unifying diverse sensor data for scalable 3D scene understanding Design and develop advanced perception models for the autonomy stack, utilizing deep learning and large-scale data analysis. Deploy scalable and efficient ML models on our autonomous vehicle platform.
Be a champion of the scientific method and critical thinking in inventing state-of-the-art deep learning solutions Work in a high-velocity environment and employ agile development practices. Collaborate closely with teams such as Perception, Motion Planning, Simulation, Infrastructure, and Tooling to drive unified solutions.
What you’ll bring
All qualificationsCore experience
- Experience with Python, any major deep learning framework, and software engineering best practices
- Experience with deep learning approaches such as supervised/unsupervised learning, transfer learning, multi-task learning, and/or deep reinforcement learning.
- Experience covering machine learning workflows, data sampling and curation, pre-processing, model training, ablation studies, evaluation, deployment, and inference optimization.
- Experience working with large-scale foundation models, including pretraining, multimodal architectures, self-supervised learning approaches.
- Deep understanding of runtime complexity, distributed/cloud ML infrastructure, data pipeline architecture,resource-aware optimization.
- Strong leadership skills to influence others and the team's technical strategy.
Qualification wording
Experience with Python, any major deep learning framework, and software engineering best practices
Experience with deep learning approaches such as supervised/unsupervised learning, transfer learning, multi-task learning, and/or deep reinforcement learning.
Experience covering machine learning workflows, data sampling and curation, pre-processing, model training, ablation studies, evaluation, deployment, and inference optimization.
Experience working with large-scale foundation models, including pretraining, multimodal architectures, self-supervised learning approaches.
Deep understanding of runtime complexity, distributed/cloud ML infrastructure, data pipeline architecture,resource-aware optimization.
Strong leadership skills to influence others and the team's technical strategy.
Education & alternatives
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - MS or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics or related quantitative fields, or equivalent industry experience. - Experience with Python, any major deep learning framework, and software engineering best practices
Tools in this posting
- Python
- C++
Source — Tool mentions in context
- MS or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics or related quantitative fields, or equivalent industry experience. - Experience with Python, any major deep learning framework, and software engineering best practices - Experience with deep learning approaches such as supervised/unsupervised learning, transfer learning, multi-task learning, and/or deep reinforcement learning.
- Deep understanding of runtime complexity, distributed/cloud ML infrastructure, data pipeline architecture,resource-aware optimization. - Comfortable in writing C++ code to help integrate with our autonomous vehicle platform. - Strong leadership skills to influence others and the team's technical strategy.
Benefits in the posting
Full benefits wording- ・Excellent health, wellness, dental and vision coverage
- ・A rewarding 401k program
- Our Commitment
From the employer’s posting.
Job description
TEAM
The Vehicle Perception team at Woven by Toyota tackles the core challenges of machine learning for 3D perception, sensor fusion, and computer vision in autonomous vehicles. Our work involves a variety of challenges, such as analyzing petabytes of multimodal driving data, solving optimization problems in computer vision, minimizing latency on hardware accelerators, deploying scalable and efficient machine learning (ML) training and evaluation pipelines, and designing novel neural network architectures to advance state-of-the-art ML for onboard perception. We are looking for doers and creative problem solvers to join us in improving mobility for everyone with human-centered automated driving solutions for personal and commercial applications.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
The team is looking for a skilled Machine Learning Engineer to help advance a cutting-edge machine learning system for perception foundation models leveraging large-scale multimodal sensor data. You will have the chance to design and implement innovative machine learning models for our next-generation autonomous vehicle platform, influencing millions of Toyota production vehicles. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about self-driving car technology and its potential impact on humanity. Furthermore, we highly value candidates who exhibit a "giver" mindset, consistently seeking opportunities to assist their colleagues while maintaining a strong focus on delivering solutions to production.
RESPONSIBILITIES
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Lead / influence the design and development of perception foundation models for autonomous vehicles, unifying diverse sensor data for scalable 3D scene understanding
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Design and develop advanced perception models for the autonomy stack, utilizing deep learning and large-scale data analysis.
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Deploy scalable and efficient ML models on our autonomous vehicle platform.
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Integrate modern technologies with rigorous safety standards while maintaining cost efficiency.
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Significantly contribute to development of needed components for end-to-end ML training and deployment, from data strategy to optimization and validation.
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Be a champion of the scientific method and critical thinking in inventing state-of-the-art deep learning solutions
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Work in a high-velocity environment and employ agile development practices.
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Collaborate closely with teams such as Perception, Motion Planning, Simulation, Infrastructure, and Tooling to drive unified solutions.
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Work in a hybrid workspace, with the requirement to be present in our Nihonbashi (Japan), Palo Alto (California), or Ann Arbor (Michigan) offices three days per week.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
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MS or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics or related quantitative fields, or equivalent industry experience.
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Experience with Python, any major deep learning framework, and software engineering best practices
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Experience with deep learning approaches such as supervised/unsupervised learning, transfer learning, multi-task learning, and/or deep reinforcement learning.
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Experience covering machine learning workflows, data sampling and curation, pre-processing, model training, ablation studies, evaluation, deployment, and inference optimization.
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Experience working with large-scale foundation models, including pretraining, multimodal architectures, self-supervised learning approaches.
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Deep understanding of runtime complexity, distributed/cloud ML infrastructure, data pipeline architecture,resource-aware optimization.
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Comfortable in writing C++ code to help integrate with our autonomous vehicle platform.
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Strong leadership skills to influence others and the team's technical strategy.
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Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate concepts clearly and precisely.
Your base salary is one part of your total compensation. We offer a base salary, short term and long term incentives, and a comprehensive benefits package. The total compensation offered to an employee will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and level.
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Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate concepts clearly and precisely. The base pay for this position ranges from $140,000 - $230,000 a year. Your base salary is one part of your total compensation. We offer a base salary, short term and long term incentives, and a comprehensive benefits package. The total compensation offered to an employee will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and level.
- Location & working pattern
Palo Alto, CA
- Collaborate closely with teams such as Perception, Motion Planning, Simulation, Infrastructure, and Tooling to drive unified solutions. - Work in a hybrid workspace, with the requirement to be present in our Nihonbashi (Japan), Palo Alto (California), or Ann Arbor (Michigan) offices three days per week. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
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- Oct 7, 2026
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- Oct 8, 2026
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