Staff Engineer, Perception: Data Loop

Rivian • Palo Alto, CA

7d

About The Position

The Data Loop team drives the data-centric enhancement of Rivian’s Perception System by focusing on the tools, operations, and processes needed to build an expanding and increasingly diverse dataset. As a member of this team, you will own one or more pipelines for data-driven improvements for the Perception models and evaluation systems. Your work will provide the platform for driving autonomy performance improvements with data, and timely delivery of new autonomy features to our customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's, Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Extensive professional experience in Software Development and statistical analysis.
• Experience working in a robotics, perception or autonomy environment is strongly preferred.
• Strong problem solving and coordination skills and an ability to operate effectively in a highly cross functional and fast paced environment.
• Excellent team player with strong communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive continuous improvement in our onboard performance by understanding current limitations and addressing them through improved training data. This includes building tooling to understand data distributions, working with autonomy leaders and engineers to understand current challenges.
• Work closely with labeling and curation teams to drive priorities across data diversity, scale, accuracy and adding new features to support product expansion.
• Manage the operations that continuously improve our training and evaluation datasets, including curation and dataset generation.
• Work with our ML Infrastructure team to build the tools that allow our data operations to scale efficiently.
• Working closely with teams across the larger perception group, systems engineering, data collection and labelling teams to address technical challenges and standardize performance understanding.

Benefits

• Robust medical/Rx, dental and vision insurance packages for full-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26. Coverage is effective on the first day of employment, and Rivian overs most of the premiums.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree