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Machine Learning Engineer – Large Behavior Models – Computer Vision

Machine Learning Engineer – Large Behavior Models – Computer Vision

CompanyToyota Research Institute
LocationMountain View, CA, USA
Salary$165760 – $248640
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelMid Level, Senior

Requirements

  • 4+ years of professional ML engineering experience at an AI/ML-focused organization.
  • Familiarity with the state-of-the-art in behavior learning, language, and/or computer vision.
  • Experience training large-scale foundation models (VLMs, text-to-video models, etc) utilizing distributed training and high-performance optimization techniques such as quantization, mixed precision, model parallelism, data parallelism or FSDP.
  • Extensive practical experience with PyTorch.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and software development best practices such as unit testing, documentation, code review, continuous integration, and dependency management.
  • Familiarity with data pipelines, model serving and optimization, cloud training, and dataset management.
  • An ability to move fast and switch between modes of rapid prototyping and robust implementation as required.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with internal research scientists and our partner labs at top academic research universities, including MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, Columbia, and Princeton, to drive pioneering research at scale.
  • Build, improve, and robustify end-to-end integrated ML pipelines for training multimodal (language, images, video, actions) models at scale.
  • Train, finetune, and serve robot foundation models with a strong MLOps mindset.
  • Build processes for integrating collaboration-produced and open-source advancements and code into our internal stack.
  • Build and improve large data pipelines for foundation model training.
  • Be a key member of the team and play a critical role in rapid progress measured by both the development of internal capabilities and high-impact external publications.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience deploying models on embodied systems/robots.
  • Experience working in mixed teams of research scientists and engineers.
  • Experience with Amazon EC2, S3, and/or Sagemaker.
  • Experience with Bazel.