Perception Lead Engineer

Woven by Toyota • Palo Alto, CA

91d • $161,000 - $264,500

About The Position

Woven by Toyota is enabling Toyota’s once-in-a-century transformation into a mobility company. Inspired by a legacy of innovating for the benefit of others, our mission is to challenge the current state of mobility through human-centric innovation — expanding what “mobility” means and how it serves society. Our work centers on four pillars: AD/ADAS, our autonomous driving and advanced driver assist technologies; Arene, our software development platform for software-defined vehicles; Woven City, a test course for mobility; and Cloud & AI, the digital infrastructure powering our collaborative foundation. Business-critical functions empower these teams to execute, and together, we’re working toward one bold goal: a world with zero accidents and enhanced well-being for all.

Requirements

• MS, or higher degree, in CS/CE/EE, or equivalent in-industry experience.
• 5+ years of experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, Caffee, Tensorflow.
• Extensive experience with machine learning and classification.
• 5+ years of experience in machine learning workflows: data sampling and curation, pre-processing, model training, ablation studies, evaluation, deployment, inference optimization.
• Strong programming skills in Python or C++.
• Passionate about self driving car technology and its potential for humanity.
• Experience in writing production level code in a real-time operating system.
• Strong communication skills and ability to communicate concepts clearly and precisely.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience with building a perception stack for autonomous systems.
• Experience in runtime optimization for runtime-critical systems on Linux and UNIX-like real-time operating systems.
• Experience with CUDA or OpenCL.
• Experience with automotive grade compute platforms.
• Experience with building safety-critical software architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead perception ML model R&D by prototyping, validating, and iterating on existing and new model architectures, setting direction and best practices for the team.
• Own end-to-end development of new ML models, from data strategy and initial development to optimization, production platform validation, and fine-tuning based on metrics and on-road performance.
• Lead large, multi-person projects, shaping the overall Perception architecture and driving technical direction.
• Mentor and enable other engineers through coaching, leading by example in writing high-quality code, conducting thorough code and design document reviews, and delivering rigorous ML experiment reports.
• Drive agile development practices in a high-velocity environment, ensuring the team can adapt and deliver quickly.
• Foster a collaborative, 'get things done' mentality, promoting accountability and high performance across the team.
• Collaborate with downstream stakeholders to define interfaces and requirements for the Perception stack.
• Closely collaborate with Perception subteams to develop end-to-end solutions.

Benefits

• Excellent health, wellness, dental, and vision coverage
• A rewarding 401k program
• Flexible vacation policy
• Family planning and care benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Master's degree