Uber

Senior Machine Learning Engineer - AV Foundation, AV Labs

Uber$202K — $224K *
Transportation
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • PhD or MS in Computer Science, Robotics, or related field with industry experience.
  • 3+ years of industry experience in autonomous vehicles or computer vision.
  • Expertise in modern modeling techniques and their application to autonomous vehicles.
  • Published research in top ML/CV conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ICLR, or NeurIPS.
  • Proficient in Python and deep learning frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow.
  • Strong communicator with mentoring and leadership experience.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop innovative techniques for autonomous vehicle research.
  • Lead the complete model lifecycle including design, evaluation, and deployment.
  • Provide technical leadership through mentorship and design reviews.
  • Collaborate closely with AV Labs and partner engineering teams.
  • Publish original research at leading computer vision and machine learning conferences.

Benefits

  • Participation in Uber's bonus program.
  • Equity awards may be offered.
  • Eligibility for a 401(k) plan for full-time employees.
  • Access to various employee benefits.
Full Job Description
Job Description

About the Role

You will be an ML engineer in AV Labs conducting frontier research for autonomous vehicles. The ideal candidate will formulate research problems, design and evaluate novel modeling approaches, and influence the direction of autonomous vehicles research through strong scientific judgment and execution. You will work cross-functionally with engineers from AV Labs and partner engineering teams.

What You Will Do

  • Design and develop frontier techniques for autonomous vehicle research.
  • Lead the end-to-end model lifecycle and system architecture-from data and training through evaluation, deployment, and monitoring-across upstream and downstream dependencies.
  • Provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentorship, and hands-on execution.
  • Collaborate closely with engineering teams and product teams across AV Labs.
  • Publish and present original research at top-tier CV and ML conferences.


Basic Qualifications

  • PhD or MS with equivalent industry experience in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field.
  • 3+ years of relevant industry experience in the field of autonomous vehicles and/or computer vision.
  • Strong understanding of how to connect cutting-edge modeling techniques to autonomous vehicles research in a scalable and reliable way.
  • Demonstrated technical contributions, such as publications at leading ML and CV conferences (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, ICLR, NeurIPS) or comparable technical outputs.
  • Proficiency in Python and modern deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
  • Strong communication skills, with experience providing technical leadership through mentorship, design reviews, and cross-team collaboration.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with autonomous vehicle research.
  • Hands-on experience in training multimodal LLMs for autonomous vehicles or relevant computer vision systems.
  • Recent publications in one or more of the following areas: 3D perception & scene understanding, multimodal embedding, diffusion models, gaussian splatting, vision language action models, and world models.


Responsibilities

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $202,000 per year - USD $224,000 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.

About Uber

Uber Entertainment, Inc. is a privately held video game development company headquartered in beautiful downtown Kirkland, WA. Uber is currently developing Planetary Annihilation, a next generation real time strategy game of epic proportions.

Uber Careers

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-$6.7 billion
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