Senior/Principal Tracking Engineer

Summary

Join Motional's Tracking team and contribute to the development of cutting-edge multi-object tracking (MOT) systems for Level 5 autonomous vehicles. The team utilizes deep learning and optimization-based methods for sensor fusion, data association, and state estimation. You will lead efforts in designing, building, and deploying robust and scalable codebases, while mentoring junior team members. Opportunities exist for both Senior and Principal Engineers, each with specific experience requirements. Motional offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, and more.

Requirements

• Bachelor's, Masters, or PhD degree preferred in Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field
• Experience designing, training, analyzing, and deploying neural networks with PyTorch or other deep learning frameworks
• Experience owning and leading technical development on features from problem formulation through implementation and deployment
• Growth mindset and continuous innovation

Responsibilities

• Lead the effort of cutting-edge MOT systems with Machine Learning and optimization-based methods
• Use your top-notch software development expertise to inspire others to develop better software practices and principles
• Design and build a robust and scalable codebase that enables rapid exploration and evaluation of different MOT approaches and algorithms
• Interface with perception and prediction components upstream and trajectory optimization and tracking & control components downstream
• Evolve the data-driven model according to the performance of AV in real-world complex environment
• Own the end-to-end product development cycle and drive the impact across the organization
• Guide and mentor junior team members to develop a culture of product-focused engineering, research, and development
• Develop a variety of algorithms for Tracking for autonomous driving, including but not limited to data association, camera-lidar fusion, state estimation, ReID, occlusion reasoning, nonlinear Kalman filtering
• Lead and Develop core deep learning algorithms for efficient training and testing pipelines
• Deploy solutions directly to an autonomous vehicle and analyze their impact
• Drive goal achievement for the Tracking team consistently
• Define technical roadmap for cutting-edge MOT systems with Machine Learning and optimization-based methods
• Lead cross-team effort and develop a variety of algorithms for Tracking for autonomous driving, including but not limited to data association, camera-lidar fusion, state estimation, ReID, occlusion reasoning, nonlinear Kalman filtering
• Contribute toward building a high-performing team, and serves as a role model to people around you in at least one technical area and one behavioral area
• Provide a vision for the Tracking team and surrounding teams

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience
• 2+ years of Deep Learning product development experience
• 1+ years of C++ software development experience
• Strong track record of tackling less well-defined problems, and executing efficiently to deliver the successful outcome
• Experience mentoring and collaborating with others
• 7+ years of software development experience
• 4+ years of Deep Learning product development experience
• 2+ years of C++ software development experience
• Effectiveness at leading and executing large, complex technical initiatives
• Strong track record of tackling ambiguous problems, creating clarity from it, and driving it to successful outcomes
• Proven track record of publications in relevant conferences (CVPR, ICML, NeurIPS, ICCV, CoRL, IROS, ICRA, etc.)
• Ph.D. in machine learning, computer vision, or robotics
• Experience working on autonomous vehicles, or related fields
• Experience in deploying models into real-world environments
• Strong programming skills in C++ and/or CUDA programming

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k with a company match
• Health saving accounts
• Life insurance
• Pet insurance
• Bonus
• Company equity