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Machine Learning Engineer II - Autonomous Driving Performance Evaluation

May Mobility · Ann Arbor, MI · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteEngineering$172k–$210k/yrFull-time

About the role

May Mobility is entering an exciting phase of growth as we expand our first-of-its-kind autonomous shuttle and mobility services across the nation. Launched in 2017 with a strong team of experienced roboticists and software engineers with decades of experience fielding robotic systems in the wild, May Mobility is looking to expand its team of robotics engineers with a background in robotics or autonomous vehicles.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement and own ML metrics and evaluation pipelines spanning offline model evaluation, simulation and on-road performance.
  • Build and maintain test, regression and hillclimbing suites that gate model and stack releases, including automated triage of regressions to root cause.
  • Drive model improvement through loss analysis, error mining, and data balancing/curation strategies for training and evaluation sets.

Qualifications and Experience

  • Required Bachelor's or Master's degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field with strong mathematical and engineering foundations.
  • A minimum of 2 years building evaluation, metrics, or data analysis systems for ML in production.
  • Proficiency in Python (NumPy/Pandas or equivalent dataframe tooling) with experience in Linux environments.
  • Familiarity with basic concepts in Machine Learning (losses, train/eval splits, common failure modes) and basic Perception and Planning concepts in Autonomous Driving.

Skills and Abilities

  • Designing quantitative metrics and statistical analyses that translate model behavior into actionable, decision-grade signals (significance, slicing, long-tail analysis).
  • Building evaluation and analytics frameworks in production, including dataset slicing, result aggregation and dashboarding at scale.
  • Applying data-centric ML methods such as hard-example mining, resampling/reweighting and curriculum or balance adjustments to lift model performance.

Benefits and Perks

  • Comprehensive healthcare suite including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans.
  • Health Savings and Flexible Spending Healthcare and Dependent Care Accounts available.
  • Rich retirement benefits, including an immediately vested employer safe harbor match.
  • Generous paid parental leave as well as a phased return to work.
  • Flexible vacation policy in addition to paid company holidays.
  • Total Wellness Program providing numerous resources for overall wellbeing.

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