You will join our core AI team at the frontier of autonomous decision-making, building the Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that form SuperDrive's reasoning layer. You'll train VLA models that generate high-level driving decisions and trajectory guidance for on-board strategic decision-making, and design the knowledge distillation and compression techniques that transition large models onto on-board compute. Responsibilities • Design, train, and evaluate Vision-Language-Action models that generate high-level driving decisions and trajectory guidance in support of Plus's reasoning layer. • Own a VLA workstream end to end - data, architecture, large-scale training, and on-vehicle validation. • Build training and evaluation pipelines and rigorous metrics for VLA performance in driving contexts. • Develop distillation and compression recipes to deploy large reasoning models on on-board compute. • Apply SFT and RL post-training to improve reasoning, robustness, and long-tail behavior. • Collaborate with perception, planning, and platform teams to bring models from research to production Required qualifications • M.S. minimum, Ph.D. preferred in CS, EE, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field. • 3+ years implementing and training models in a deep learning framework (PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX). • Direct, hands-on experience training vision-language / vision-language-action models. • Hands-on experience with model training, evaluation, and deployment in production. • Thorough understanding of state-of-the-art vision-language / VLA models, diffusion, flow matching, and transformers. • Experience with large-scale / distributed model training. Preferred Qualifications • Model distillation, quantization, and inference optimization (ONNX/TensorRT, mixed precision, custom kernels). • SFT and RL post-training of large multimodal models. • Hands-on experience with multi-modal sensor data (camera, LiDAR, radar). • Publications at top venues (CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL, RSS, ICRA). • Autonomous driving / ADAS experience. Salary range: $170,000-$260,00k Exact compensation may vary based on skills and experience. Your opportunities joining PlusAI Work, learn and grow in a highly future-oriented, innovative and dynamic field. Wide range of opportunities for personal and professional development. Catered free lunch, unlimited snacks and beverages. Highly competitive salary and benefits package, including 401(k) plan.