Senior Data Scientist - Machine Learning for Perception

Join the innovative Offline Driving Intelligence (ODIN) team at Zoox, where we harness cutting-edge AI technologies to develop algorithms that offer a profound understanding of our environment. Our focus is on creating robust models that operate offline, guiding the development of our autonomous robot to navigate safely and efficiently through intricate sett…

Join the innovative Offline Driving Intelligence (ODIN) team at Zoox, where we harness cutting-edge AI technologies to develop algorithms that enhance our understanding of the world around us. Our focus is on utilizing large models primarily in offline environments to create impactful solutions for our self-driving robot, facilitating safe and efficient navigation through complex settings.As a vital member of the ODIN team, you will be tasked with the development of advanced multimodal large language models that significantly improve environmental comprehension. Your role will involve fine-tuning these models for off-vehicle analysis, collaborating closely with the onboard engineering team to implement solutions that enable our robotaxi platform to swiftly identify hazards and interpret driving restrictions with minimal latency. Working alongside a team of esteemed engineers and researchers, you will leverage high-quality sensor data and state-of-the-art infrastructure to validate your algorithms in real-world scenarios, making a direct contribution to the productivity, safety, and capabilities of Zoox's autonomous systems.

Join our innovative Perception team at Zoox, where we harness the power of cutting-edge sensor data to decode the intricacies of dynamic driving environments. In this pivotal role, you will leverage world-class sensor data and a robust infrastructure to test and validate groundbreaking algorithms. Your contributions will be instrumental in developing advanced algorithms for segmentation, tracking, classification, and high-level scene understanding, allowing you to engage with any or all of these exciting components.As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will spearhead the creation of machine learning algorithms that significantly influence both onboard and offboard autonomy and validation processes. You will work collaboratively with specialized teams in Prediction, Planning, Simulation, and Safety Validation, shaping our overarching technical framework. Your innovative approach will bridge team boundaries, enabling the prototyping of new methodologies that guide the long-term technical vision across multiple divisions within the organization. The impact of your work will range from achieving immediate company objectives to leading pioneering exploratory initiatives.

About UsCyvl is an innovative tech startup based in Boston, reshaping the way governments map and manage their transportation infrastructure. Our cutting-edge hardware and software solutions utilize advanced 3D mapping sensors to collect LiDAR, imagery, and GPS data, seamlessly integrated into our clients' vehicles. This data is processed through our AI-driven cloud pipelines to produce actionable geospatial insights that optimize city operations, saving time, money, and resources.At Cyvl, our mission is to empower governments in constructing and maintaining public infrastructure they can be proud of. We accelerate decision-making through our sensors and Infrastructure Intelligence Platform. This role is pivotal for our intelligence extraction process, responsible for transforming millions of street-level images and dense LiDAR point clouds into structured, queryable knowledge about the physical realm.We are a dynamic and rapidly growing team that believes in addressing real-world challenges with authenticity, simplicity, and courage. Each team member is empowered to take initiative, achieve results, and make a lasting impact on the communities we serve.

Mission Overview: Join us as a distinguished Staff/Principal Engineer specializing in Perception Capabilities, where you will spearhead the development of innovative software solutions leveraging advanced computer vision and deep learning technologies. Your extensive experience will encompass key areas such as detection, classification, segmentation, and tracking, alongside critical support functions, including data engines, labeling policies, training pipelines, model optimization, simulation, and testing. You are motivated by the tangible impact of your work, taking initiative and ownership of outcomes. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to apply your expertise to the perception stack of autonomous vehicles, navigating the unique challenges inherent in safety-critical, open-world applications while ensuring engineering excellence and thorough evaluation. As a creative problem solver, you'll collaborate with interdisciplinary teams focused on capability enhancement to design, implement, and validate comprehensive solutions.

Join AcuityMD as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our Data and Intelligence products. In this dynamic position, you will leverage your expertise in machine learning algorithms and data analysis to create innovative solutions that drive our product offerings. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance our capabilities and deliver exceptional value to our clients.

Join Our Team: At Motional, our mission is to revolutionize transportation through the development of autonomous vehicles. As part of our cutting-edge team, you will collaborate with top-tier machine learning engineers and research scientists to bring self-driving technology to life, making a positive impact on society. We focus on creating advanced tech stacks that analyze complex driving environments and generate safe, comfortable trajectories for our robotaxi services using state-of-the-art deep neural networks.Your Role:As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in prediction, you will play a pivotal role in training, evaluating, and deploying our machine learning models for scene understanding, behavior prediction, and planning. Your daily responsibilities will include:Designing and conducting high-impact experiments through collaboration with fellow machine learning engineers.Prototyping and enhancing metrics for assessing the performance of our behavioral models across various scenarios and capabilities.Ensuring timely updates of major models, including detailed analysis of offline and on-road evaluation data.Staying abreast of the latest industry trends, proposing innovative architectures and network designs based on current literature.Maintaining a robust training and evaluation codebase, particularly focusing on dataset generation and evaluation.

Join our innovative team at hike-medical as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer. In this pivotal role, you will harness state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to develop cutting-edge healthcare solutions. Your expertise will drive the design and implementation of robust algorithms, enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of our medical technologies.

Join our dynamic team as an Engineer/Senior Engineer focused on Perception Capabilities, where you will have the opportunity to develop innovative software products leveraging advanced computer vision and deep learning technologies. Your expertise in detection, classification, segmentation, or tracking will play a crucial role in creating impactful solutions in a production-oriented environment.We value curiosity and motivation, and we encourage you to learn from our experienced team. If you enjoy tackling complex technical challenges, asking insightful questions, and collaborating to produce top-notch software, this is the place for you.Your contributions will directly impact the perception stack of our self-driving vehicles, enhancing safety-critical applications in an open-world context.

The Machine Learning Observability team at Datadog is at the forefront of developing innovative tools designed to monitor, interpret, and enhance AI systems deployed in production environments, with a special focus on Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI technologies. Our solutions provide comprehensive and scalable observability for AI workloads, including drift detection, model evaluation, and behavior tracing, empowering our clients to deploy AI confidently. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be instrumental in driving the development of new features and core capabilities within Datadog’s LLM Observability product. You will influence product strategy, lead experimental initiatives, and leverage your extensive knowledge of AI systems and software engineering to tackle complex challenges in the rapidly evolving AI domain. Your contributions will have a significant impact on how our customers monitor, diagnose, and optimize LLM-powered applications in production. Join us in creating the essential tools that ensure AI systems are observable, comprehensible, and dependable in real-world applications. At Datadog, we value our office culture which fosters relationships, collaboration, and creativity. We operate within a hybrid work model to enable our Datadogs to achieve a work-life balance that suits them best.

About Air Space IntelligenceAt Air Space Intelligence (ASI), we are at the forefront of mission-critical technology that transforms decision-making across the aviation, defense, energy, and critical infrastructure sectors. Supported by leading investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, and Renegade Partners, ASI empowers organizations to achieve operational decision superiority—reducing days of analysis into mere seconds of actionable insights. Join us as we redefine the limits of possibility.Your Role:As a vital member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for designing and deploying robust production-grade systems that seamlessly integrate machine learning models into scalable software pipelines. You will develop and implement features that utilize machine learning to address real-world optimization and prediction challenges, leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as Kubernetes, AWS, and MLOps tools. Your approach will reflect a software engineer's mindset—focusing on reliability, maintainability, and high performance at scale.Our Core Values:Expertise in Python, along with experience in production machine learning tools and frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn.Hands-on experience with large language models (LLMs) in production settings, encompassing prompt engineering, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, and frameworks such as LangChain.Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles.Familiarity with classical machine learning, deep learning with an emphasis on transformer architectures, and MLOps methodologies.Experience in building and maintaining scalable, reliable machine learning systems with comprehensive data pipelines, including proficiency with Apache Beam, MLflow, and similar tools.Dedication to high-quality machine learning engineering practices, including data versioning, experiment tracking, model governance, and automated testing pipelines.A preference for simplicity and clarity when tackling complex challenges.An inquisitive mind and eagerness to collaborate with others.Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.Our Hiring Philosophy:We view the interview process not merely as a screening test but as an opportunity to simulate what it will be like to work together. Our hiring process is tailored around you.

Join Our Team at Motional: As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in ML Planning, you will collaborate with top-tier machine learning engineers and research scientists to revolutionize the future of self-driving vehicles. Your work will contribute to creating a positive social impact by enhancing the technology that interprets complex driving environments and devises safe, efficient driving strategies for our robotaxi fleet.Your Responsibilities:Lead the design and execution of innovative experiments, leveraging insights from cross-functional teams of machine learning engineers.Prototype and implement advanced metrics to assess the performance of our behavioral models across diverse scenarios and capabilities of our robotaxi.Ensure timely deployment of significant model updates, analyzing both offline and on-road evaluation results.Stay abreast of industry trends and propose novel architectures and network designs informed by the latest research.Maintain a robust and high-quality training and evaluation codebase, focusing on dataset generation and assessment.

Join our innovative team at Flagship Pioneering Inc. as a (Senior) Machine Learning Engineer, where you'll be at the forefront of developing cutting-edge artificial intelligence solutions. In this role, you will leverage your expertise in machine learning algorithms and data analysis to drive impactful results across various projects. Collaborate with a diverse team of scientists and engineers to create scalable models that can be implemented in real-world applications.

At WHOOP, we are revolutionizing health and fitness with our state-of-the-art wearable technology, dedicated to enhancing human performance and extending healthspan. Our innovative approach enables members to gain profound insights into their bodies, behaviors, and daily activities, empowering them to make healthier choices and achieve peak performance.We are on the lookout for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our dynamic Foundation AI team. This team is responsible for developing the multimodal foundation models that drive WHOOP’s next generation of intelligent, personalized, and health-optimizing solutions. These models seamlessly integrate data from wearable sensors, linguistic inputs, biomarkers, clinical data, and self-reported metrics to build scalable AI systems that accurately understand human physiology and behavior.In this pivotal role, you will be a key individual contributor leading the research, development, and implementation of large-scale multimodal models. You will work collaboratively with data scientists, ML engineers, and cross-functional partners to advance the frontiers of deep learning and ensure that our models provide significant value to WHOOP members.

Join Cellular Intelligence as a Senior/Principal Machine Learning Researcher!At Cellular Intelligence, formerly known as Somite AI, we strive to revolutionize stem cell biology by creating AI foundational models that facilitate the development of innovative cell therapies on a large scale.Our comprehensive approach allows us to generate data at a cost efficiency of 1,000 times lower than traditional methods, while training large-scale models that possess unparalleled predictive capabilities. These models are pivotal in discovering, refining, and optimizing impactful applications in cell therapy.Our founding team boasts a wealth of experience, including AI entrepreneur Dr. Micha Breakstone, who successfully led Chorus.ai to a $575M acquisition, the Head of MIT's Fundamental AI Group, and a cadre of professors from Harvard Medical School and the University of Washington, comprising members of the National Academy of Sciences and Medicine. Based in Boston, we are excited to commence operations in January 2024 and have secured nearly $60 million in funding to date.

The Machine Learning (ML) Data Services team is on the lookout for a passionate and seasoned Staff Technical Lead Manager (TLM) to spearhead the evolution and operation of our essential machine learning data infrastructure. This pivotal position requires a unique fusion of in-depth technical knowledge in machine learning systems, extensive data processing, and a proven track record in leadership to effectively manage both individual contributors and set technical direction. The ML Data Services team plays a vital role in ensuring the provision of reliable, high-quality, and easily accessible data for all machine learning applications. As custodians of the 'Data Engineering' phase of the ML lifecycle, we handle the most crucial input for any ML system: the data itself. Our infrastructure supports hundreds of data pipelines and processes petabytes of data, directly facilitating the success of our flagship products. Key Responsibilities: Technical Leadership and Strategic Direction Develop and execute the technical roadmap and long-term strategy for the ML Data Services platform, ensuring alignment with the growing needs of ML engineers across the organization. Act as the leading technical authority for the team, designing complex, highly scalable, and fault-tolerant systems for data ingestion, transformation, and serving. Guide the technical vision for sourcing diverse training data, encompassing real-world drive logs, resimulation outputs, auto-labeling pipelines, and human labeling efforts. Oversee the implementation of robust mechanisms for monitoring data quality, tracking data lineage, and ensuring comprehensive data governance and compliance. Provide hands-on technical mentorship, design reviews, and guidance to engineers, promoting best practices, high code quality, and operational excellence. Management and Team Development Lead a team of software engineers, conducting performance reviews, facilitating career development, and providing coaching and mentoring. Balance a hybrid role as a technical leader-manager, dedicating 50% of efforts to management and 50% to technical leadership, architecture, and hands-on coding/design. Drive recruitment efforts to attract, onboard, and retain exceptional engineering talent, fostering a diverse and inclusive team culture. Promote engineering excellence, operational rigor, and a strong sense of ownership within the team. Collaboration and Execution Work closely with ML model and Infrastructure teams to understand data requirements and deliver solutions that expedite ML development cycles. Lead the execution of major projects, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with business objectives. Effectively communicate complex technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders.

WHOOP, a leading innovator in health and fitness wearables, is dedicated to enhancing human performance and extending healthspan. We empower our members by providing profound insights into their physical condition and daily habits. As part of our Health team, you will contribute to developing cutting-edge algorithms and features that enhance our health offerings. This role involves pioneering work in various domains including women’s health, medical-grade metrics, wellness monitoring, and longevity research, merging continuous physiological data with clinical research to create impactful health solutions. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will design, construct, and implement ML systems that deliver personalized health metrics to millions. Your expertise will bridge data science, backend engineering, and cloud infrastructure, focusing on robust, scalable ML solutions derived from physiological and behavioral data. Strong coding, system design skills, and the ability to produce production-ready ML services are essential for success in this position.

LOCATION: This position can be based anywhere in Canada, with a preference for candidates in the eastern or central time zones to collaborate effectively with our teams in the US, Europe, and India.ABOUT THE ROLEWiser Solutions is on the lookout for a Principal Machine Learning Engineer to steer and implement our AI and data science initiatives. This senior technical leadership role requires a unique individual who possesses extensive knowledge in machine learning, data science, and production engineering, coupled with the business insight needed to transform intricate capabilities into tangible customer value.In this role, you will serve as the leading technical authority on AI at Wiser. Your responsibilities will include defining the architectural vision, showcasing our capabilities to clients and partners, and delivering production systems that yield measurable business results. This position demands an individual who can seamlessly navigate between strategic planning and hands-on execution, capable of engaging with executives one day and troubleshooting production pipelines the next.We are fostering an AI-driven engineering culture at Wiser, where AI tools and methodologies are integrated into our workflows—not just our products. We seek a Principal AI Engineer who not only develops AI solutions but also exemplifies AI-enhanced working practices and aids the broader engineering team in their adoption. If you’re passionate about the transformative power of AI in software development and actively embrace this shift in your daily work, we want to hear from you.Key ResponsibilitiesStrategic LeadershipCollaborate with product and business leadership to define and refine Wiser's technical AI and data science strategy.Communicate Wiser's AI capabilities to clients, partners, and advisors, outlining our approach, roadmap, and unique value proposition.Spot high-impact opportunities where AI can effectively address client challenges or provide competitive advantages.Set technical standards, patterns, and best practices that guide engineering decisions across the organization.Technical ExecutionDesign and develop production AI systems, including applications for LLM, RAG pipelines, semantic search, and traditional ML models.Create rigorous evaluation frameworks, experimentation methodologies, and monitoring systems that ensure AI solutions deliver reliable, measurable outcomes.Integrate classical data science techniques (statistical modeling, experimentation design, feature engineering) with modern generative AI methods.Oversee the technical quality of AI systems end-to-end, from data pipelines and model deployment to production observability.Cross-Functional CollaborationWork alongside product management to translate business needs into technical solutions and validate them against customer expectations.Guide and uplift the AI/data science team (3-5 engineers), enhancing the technical proficiency across the board.

The Machine Learning Data Services team is on the lookout for an accomplished and driven Staff Technical Lead Manager (TLM) to spearhead the design and operation of our foundational machine learning data infrastructure. This pivotal role necessitates a unique combination of extensive technical know-how in machine learning systems, large-scale data processing, and a proven track record in leadership to guide both team members and technical initiatives. Our ML Data Services team plays a vital role in ensuring the provision of dependable, high-quality, and easily accessible data for all machine learning applications. As custodians of the 'Data Engineering' phase within the machine learning lifecycle, we oversee the most crucial input to any ML system: the data itself. Our robust infrastructure supports numerous data pipelines and vast datasets, directly contributing to the success of our flagship products. Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership and Strategy Define and drive the technical roadmap and long-term strategy for the ML Data Services platform, ensuring alignment with the evolving needs of machine learning engineers across the organization. Act as the principal technical authority for the team, architecting sophisticated, highly scalable, and fault-tolerant systems for data ingestion, transformation, and serving. Lead the technical vision for acquiring a diverse range of training data sources, incorporating ingestion from real-world drive logs, resimulation outputs, auto-labeling pipelines, and human labeling efforts. Initiate and oversee the implementation of rigorous mechanisms for monitoring data quality, tracking data lineage, and ensuring comprehensive data governance and compliance. Deliver hands-on technical guidance, conduct design reviews, and mentor engineers, ensuring adherence to best practices, high code quality, and operational excellence. Team Management and Growth Supervise a team of software engineers, encompassing performance evaluations, career development, coaching, and mentoring. Serve as a hybrid technical leader-manager, balancing 50% management responsibilities with 50% technical leadership, architecture, and hands-on coding/design. Lead recruitment efforts to attract, onboard, and retain top engineering talent while fostering a diverse and inclusive team culture. Promote engineering excellence, operational rigor, and a strong sense of ownership within the team. Collaboration and Execution Engage closely with ML model teams and Infrastructure teams to grasp data needs and deliver solutions that expedite machine learning development cycles. Steer the execution of significant projects, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with business objectives. Articulate complex technical concepts clearly to various stakeholders.