Staff Machine Learning Engineer

$199,000 - $244,000/Yr

Acubed Limited - Sunnyvale, CA

Full-time - Senior

Sunnyvale, CA

Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods

About the position

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Acubed, you will lead the technical execution of machine learning pipelines, focusing on enhancing the end-to-end perception pipeline for commercial aircraft. This role allows for hands-on innovation in a collaborative and agile environment, contributing significantly to Airbus's broader ambitions in autonomous flight technology.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop cutting-edge ML models, architectures, and pipelines for vision-based flight capabilities in commercial aircraft
• Drive technical direction, providing guidance to the team and ensuring alignment with business objectives
• Conduct rigorous evaluations of ML models, assessing effectiveness and efficiency
• Write high quality, product level code that is easy to maintain and test following standard methodologies
• Collaborate with multiple teams, including Data/Labeling, Simulation, Verification, and Validation, as well as teams in the global Airbus Organization
• Keep track of the latest innovation in academia and the open-source community and quickly prototype new projects on Vision and LLM/Foundation model useful to Airbus.

Requirements

• Master's degree (or equivalent industry experience) in computer science, or a related discipline
• 10+ years of experience in developing and leading software and system design for aerospace, robotics or related fields
• 6+ years of industry experience working as a CV/ML perception software engineer in the field of autonomous vehicles or related fields
• Experience in developing on or using deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, etc.)
• Experience in deploying ML models to production
• Extensive experience in Python
• Strong communication skills and presentation abilities

Nice-to-haves

• PhD degree in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of machine learning experience
• Passion for aviation and autonomous systems
• Experience with LLM, RL, and other emerging ML technologies
• Proficiency in C++

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Flight training