[Remote] Machine Learning Engineer - ML Planner

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. As a Machine Learning Engineer in the Behaviors team, you will be responsible for training, evaluating, and deploying ML-based models to enhance the capabilities of self-driving vehicles. Responsibilities Designing and training large models for predicting surrounding agents, AV behaviors, and end-to-end planning systems by executing high-value experiments based on collaborative input from other machine learning engineers Prototyping and implementing continuously improving metrics to evaluate the performance of our behavioral models across many desired scenarios and robotaxi capabilities Timely release of major model updates, including analysis of both off-line and on-road evaluation data Staying up to date with the latest trends in our fast-moving industry, and proposing new architectures and network designs Maintaining a high-quality training and evaluation code-base, including portions of our training stack dedicated to dataset generation and evaluation Skills Masters or PhD in Machine Learning, Generative AI, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics In-depth understanding of common Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms, especially transformer-based architectures, autoregressive decoder architectures etc Experience designing, training, and analyzing neural networks/transformer-based models for at least one of the following applications: motion planning, object detection, sensor fusion, motion prediction, and/or multi-object tracking, multi-agent predictions Knowledge of software engineering principles, including software design, source control management, build processes, code reviews, and testing methods Knowledge or course experience of generative models such as VLM, VLA etc Experience with PyTorch or other Python-based deep learning frameworks Experience working with large data sets, data curation, and augmentation Publications in relevant conferences (CVPR, ICML, NeurIPS, ICCV, ECCV, ICRA, IROS etc.) Project or internship experience on VLM, VLA and other foundation models for robotics and self-driving PhD in machine learning, generative AI, computer vision, or robotics vision Project experience working on autonomous vehicles or related fields Experience in deploying models into real-world environments Strong programming skills in C++ and/or CUDA programming Benefits Medical Dental Vision 401k with a company match Health saving accounts Life insurance Pet insurance And more Company Overview Motional offers an autonomous driving platform for robotaxi providers, fleet operators, and automotive manufacturers. It was founded in 2020, and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship Motional has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 56 in 2025, 111 in 2024, 57 in 2023, 110 in 2022, 100 in 2021, 7 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.