Staff Machine Learning Engineer,Perception

In this role you will be a member of the Perception team at Rivian, which develops machine learning algorithms that directly impact safety critical self-driving features for the Rivian Autonomy Platform. You will be responsible for design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance of onboard Perception functionality.

• Be independently responsible for the entire lifecycle of projects or features including engineering design, development, deployment, testing and maintenance.
• Develop production ready software to run on our vehicles and in the cloud.
• Develop perception capabilities using tools from machine learning, state estimation, and
  robotics.
• Develop tools and processes to evaluate and measure the performance of the perception
  system.
• Work with the broader team to ensure that our Perception outputs are integrated to deliver a
  great experience to customers.

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience building and deploying large-scale ML systems
• Deep understanding of foundation models, self-supervised learning, and world models in robotics or simulation
• Strong software engineering background, with fluency in Python and C++
• Experience training and evaluating transformer models or end-to-end autonomous agents
• Familiarity with real-time inference systems and autonomous vehicle constraints
• Proven leadership in driving ML projects from research to production