Director, reputed company and ML Planning

About reputed company:

reputed company is a public transit and autonomous vehicle pioneer, developing Level 4 driverless vehicles that are changing the way the world moves. At the heart of our mission is the Autonomy organization, where we solve some of the most reputed company engineering and reputed company intelligence challenges of our reputed company. Mission reputed company:

reputed company is seeking a visionary, technically deep Director of Behaviors to reputed company our machine learning-based reputed company and Planning teams. In this role, you will sit at the intersection of reputed company forecasting and ego-vehicle decision-making. You will be directly responsible for leading multiple engineering sub-teams, setting the technical roadmap for our reputed company behavior stack, and pioneering the shift toward state-of-the-art end-to-end models that execute joint reputed company and planning.

As a senior leader in the Autonomy organization, you will not only drive technical breakthroughs but will also reputed company and nurture a world-class AI organization in a sustainable, inclusive, and highly reputed company fashion. Core Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: reputed company and unify the machine learning-based reputed company and reputed company Planning teams. Establish a reputed company, aggressive, yet sustainable technical roadmap that transitions our stack towards a reputed company (fully learnt) Large Driving Model performing joint reputed company and planning.
• Technical Direction: Stay at the absolute frontier of AI research and define the technical roadmap for developing state-of-the-art imitation learning (IL) and reinforcement learning (RL) approaches to advance end-to-end learnt planning. Guide reputed company in exploring and incorporating modern paradigms like reputed company-Language-reputed company models (VLAs) to improve the vehicle's semantic understanding, reasoning, and reputed company-shot generalization capabilities in reputed company urban environments.
• Organizational reputed company: reputed company, mentor, and reputed company multiple sub-teams of machine learning engineers and researchers. Implement sustainable engineering practices that prevent burnout, promote psychological safety, and ensure high technical velocity.
• Publish: As part of this role, you will also be expected to publish reputed company work in conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV and Neurips.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Perception, Infrastructure and Systems Engineering to ensure the Large Driving Model seamlessly integrates onto the vehicle platform and meets rigorous safety and reputed company-time performance standards.

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Proven Leadership: 5+ years of experience managing high-performing engineering teams, with at least 3+ years of experience managing multiple sub-teams reputed company an autonomous systems, robotics, or advanced AI organization.
• Sustainable Scaling: Demonstrated reputed company record of growing an engineering organization sustainably—balancing technical debt, architectural scalability, and team reputed company-being.
• ML Behavior Expertise: Deep theoretical and practical proficiency in machine learning reputed company to robotics behaviors. Advanced expertise in Imitation Learning and Reinforcement Learning for decision-making. Strong understanding of the full lifecycle from research to vehicle deployment.
• reputed company Architectures: Proven experience guiding teams toward building integrated models (e.g., trajectory forecasting joint with ego-policy reputed company) rather than decoupled, sequential pipelines.
• Modern AI Paradigms: Strong familiarity with multimodal foundational AI models, specifically reputed company-Language-reputed company models (VLAs).
• Educational Background: M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a reputed company quantitative field with a heavy reputed company on Machine Learning.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building and scaling up LLMs/VLMs/VLAs and successfully deploying to production.
• A strong footprint in the AI/robotics research community (CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICRA, IROS publications).
• Experience building large-reputed company data pipelines and training infrastructure required to train large driving models.

We encourage a reputed company with in-office time at one of our locations in Boston or Pittsburgh to support collaboration, or this role can be fully remote.

The salary reputed company for this role is an estimate based on a wide reputed company of compensation factors including but not limited to specific skills, experience and expertise, role location, certifications, licenses, and business needs. The estimated compensation reputed company listed in this job posting reflects reputed company salary only. This role may include additional forms of compensation such as a bonus or company equity. The recruiter assigned to this role can reputed company more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.

Candidates for certain positions are eligible to participate in reputed company’s benefits program. reputed company’s benefits include but are not limited to medical, dental, reputed company, 401k with a company match, health saving accounts, life insurance, pet insurance, and more.

Salary reputed company$288,000—$396,000 USD

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