Machine Learning Engineer – Motion Planning & Prediction
Avride · Austin, Texas
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At a glance
Highlights
- Design prediction and planning models that drive AVs in real traffic.
- Build eval frameworks tied to on-road safety, not just offline loss.
- Diagnose long-tail failures from petabytes of real driving logs.
Ideal candidate
Creative, driven engineer obsessed with real-world robotics who has shipped prediction or planning systems to physical hardware and loves digging into long-tail failures and safety-critical performance.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with behavioral/trajectory prediction, motion planning, decision-making under uncertainty, or adjacent autonomy work for AVs, robots, drones or similar physical systems
- Experience deploying machine learning to real hardware in the physical world under real-time or resource constraints
- Strong Python and production experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
- Proficiency in C++ or Rust for performance-critical inference and integration
- Demonstrated ownership of a system from prototype through deployment including debugging after shipping
- remote policy
- No remote work
- visa sponsorship
- No sponsorship
Lab profile
About Avride
U.S. startup developing and operating autonomous cars and delivery robots on a shared platform.
What they build
- Autonomous cars
- Delivery robots
Known for
- Shared car-robot autonomy technology
- Motion planning and decision-making
- AV safety metrics and evaluation
- Real-world robotaxi operations
Key facts
- Founded in 2017
- Headquartered in Austin, TX
- Few hundred engineers
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