Senior Machine Learning Engineer II, ML Data Mining and Search

We're Cruise, a self-driving service designed for the cities we love. We're building the world's most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.

The ML Data Shop team is part of the data centric AI/ML infrastructure vital for Cruise's success. We build a highly reliable, scalable, and cost effective platform to search for impactful on-road scenarios, label the data, prepare the resulting dataset for model training, and close the model performance feedback loop.

We are looking for an engineer to join a high performing team delivering a data search and mining platform to surface vital data for Cruise's ML data needs.

What you'll be doing:

• From a research perspective, exploring, prototyping, validating, and iterating new algorithms / models
• On the development side, driving efforts to optimize, evaluate and refine on-road performance for models on the path to production
• Considered one of the technical leaders of the department who guides current and future technology choices
• Have a deep understanding of the business and operational impact for different technology tradeoffs, and able to balance effectively based on company's needs
• Enable other engineers on the team to be more effective through design and code that is easy to extend and contribute to
• Capable of influencing others and building consensus even over contentious technical debates

What you must have:

• BS, MS, or higher degree, in CS/CE/EE, or equivalent industry experience
• Extensive experience with machine learning and classification
• Extensive experience with data processing and management
• Strong programming skills in C++ and Python
• Excellent mathematical reasoning skills, especially with probability
• Active team player in complex environments
• Experience with autonomous driving or robotic technologies
• Passionate about self-driving car technology and its impact on the world!

Bonus points:

• PhD in Machine Learning or Computer Science
• Experience with ROS, OpenCV, Gazebo, or PCL
• Experience with CUDA
• Experience with Vector Search Engine
• Track record in deploying prediction models into real world environments

The salary range for this position is $161,200 - $237,000. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, long-term incentives, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.