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Principal Engineer, Team Lead - Behaviors
Posted: 11/12/2025
Employment Type:
Direct Hire
Job Number: 31166
Job Location: Remote
Industry: AV - Autonomous Vehicles
Job Description
Position Title: Principal Engineer, Team Lead - Behaviors
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting remote (sitting anywhere in the US) Principal Engineer, Team Lead Direct Hire opportunity.
Job Responsibilities:
Job Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Job Details:
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.
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting remote (sitting anywhere in the US) Principal Engineer, Team Lead Direct Hire opportunity.
Job Responsibilities:
- Define and execute motion planning and prediction projects that improve our self-driving vehicles’ capability to safely, comfortably and legally navigate complex traffic scenarios
- Lead, manage and grow a team of engineers
- Design and lead the implementation of behavior models that leverage the latest advancements in machine learning, generative AI and reinforcement learning
- Productionize and deploy solutions onto autonomous vehicle fleets
- Collaborate with perception, simulation, data platform and integration teams to validate and enhance your products’ on-road performance
- Communicate strategies, progress and challenges to executive leadership
Job Qualifications:
- Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related technical field; or equivalent industry experience
- Proven leadership skills at executing large, complex technical initiatives
- Extensive experience managing and leading engineers
- Experience with deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch
- Fluency in Python, including standard scientific computing libraries
- Proven track record of designing, developing and deploying ML solutions for autonomous vehicles or robotics
- Advanced knowledge of software engineering principles including software design, source control management, build processes, code reviews, testing methods
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with embedded systems and real-time optimization, especially in the autonomous driving industry
- Experience with state of the art generative AI, and/or reinforcement learning, paradigms
- Proven track record of publications in relevant conferences (CVPR, ICML, NeurIPS, ICCV, ICL, etc.)
- Strong programming skills in C++ and/or CUDA programming
Job Details:
- Direct Hire
- Location: Remote
- Pay Rate Range: $240,000—$290,000/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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