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# Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Reinforcement Learning), Motion Planning

- **Company:** PlusAI, Inc.
- **Location:** Santa Clara, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $220,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C++ (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Tensorflow, Software Engineering, Reinforcement Learning, Planning Software, Pytorch, Production Code
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/17d28c93-3cee-46d5-b27b-f835c72a8024

## About the Role

* MS or PhD in Computer/Software Engineering, Robotics, Machine Learning or related field.
 * Experience developing production code in C/C++ and Python
 * Experience with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch
 * Experience with reinforcement learning
 * Strong oral and written communication skills.

Preferred skills

 * Experience with high-throughput batched driving simulators such as GPUDrive and PufferDrive
 * Experience with self-play reinforcement learning
 * Experience with sim-to-real in the context of robotics / autonomous driving
 * Prior experience in learned behavior planning / prediction for autonomous vehicles

## Description

* Design, develop, and deploy learned behavior planning models using approaches such as reinforcement learning, behavior cloning, and imitation learning
 * Own end-to-end Reinforcement Learning pipeline from environment construction, training, and modeling.
 * Contribute to Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure to facilitate large-scale distributed training
 * Track model training, analyze model performance, identify failure modes to improve generalization across driving scenarios
 * Collaborate with simulation and planning teams to deploy learned behavior planning models to driving pipelines


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