Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Autonomy
42dot, Sunnyvale
The role
We're building a new autonomous driving organization to deliver production-ready L4 autonomy across trucks, buses, passenger vehicles, and robotaxis. Our approach is ML-first, centered around end-to-end learning, foundation models, VLA models, and world models. As a founding senior engineer, you'll make the architecture decisions most autonomy teams made years ago, then personally drive their implementation into production. We are looking for builders, not spectators. You'll lead major technical initiatives from ambiguous problems to deployed systems running on real vehicles while helping shape the future of the organization.
What you will do
- Lead development of end-to-end driving, VLA, or world model systems.
- Define and implement scalable autonomy architectures.
- Adapt foundation models for autonomous driving.
- Drive major technical initiatives from concept to deployment.
- Improve training, evaluation, and data efficiency.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to team growth.