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Fellow, Machine Learning - Autonomy

Hillsborough, CA 94010

Posted: 11/12/2025 Employment Type: Direct Hire Job Number: 31164 Job Location: Remote Industry: AV - Autonomous Vehicles

Job Description

Position Title: Fellow, Machine Learning - Autonomy

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting remote (sitting anywhere in the US) Machine Learning Direct Hire opportunity.

Job Responsibilities:
  • Researching, implementing, and evaluating deep-learning-based methods for prediction and planning for Motional’s Autonomous Vehicle products.
  • Leading, Designing, running, and analyzing experiments and testing to evaluate the efficiency of our solutions on real-world data.
  • Partnering with system software engineering specialists to ship industrial strength ML models.
  • Communicating and collaborating with multi-functional teams.

Job Qualifications:
  • BS/MS/PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, applied math, or related fields (or equivalent experience)
  • 15+ years of proven experience building ML systems for autonomous vehicles or similar robotics applications
  • Deep understanding of large language models (LLM) and transformers
  • Hands on experience building large scale production ML systems and deploying them at scale
  • Excellent leadership and track record for innovation to help us build the next generation of our ML based planning solutions
  • Experience with deep neural network (DNN) training, inference and optimization in leading frameworks (Pytorch, Tensorflow, TensorRT, etc.).
  • Excellent understanding of the mathematical foundations of machine learning and deep learning.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Prior experience as a ML planning lead
  • Proven publication record in ML for planning, vision, or related fields
  • Prior experience building and deploying vision language action or chain of thought models

Job Details:
  • Direct Hire
  • Location: Remote
  • Pay Rate Range: $271,000—$373,000/year

About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.

 

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