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# Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Tracking

- **Company:** Cruise LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Vision, C++ (Programming Language), Computer Programming, Fault Tolerance, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Tensorflow, Pytorch, Deep Learning
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_8ebd30a3c766fb3e0a1d55b3c97bd246

## About the Role

* PhD/MS degree in computer vision, machine learning, or a related field; alternatively equivalent years of industry experience solving ML problems which do not have readily-available solutions.
 * Track record of driving applied deep learning projects from start to completion, including conception, problem definition, experimentation, iteration, and finally publication or productization.
 * Track record of cross-organization impact.
 * Strong programming skills in Python and/or C++.
 * Extensive experience with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, Caffe, or PyTorch.
 * Excellent mathematical and physical reasoning skills, especially with probability.
 * Strong verbal and written communication skills.
 * Expertise in setting architectures that are scalable, efficient, fault-tolerant, and are easily extensible allowing for changes over time without major disruptions.
 * Ability to design across multiple systems, investigate in sophisticated areas as well as a good breadth of understanding of systems outside of your domain.
 * Ability to wear several hats shifting between coding, design, technical strategy, and mentorship combined with excellent judgment on when to switch contexts to meet the greatest need., * PhD in machine learning, computer vision, or robotics.
 * Experience in deploying perception algorithms and models into real-world environments.
 * Experience with object tracking, especially multi-sensor and/or multi-object tracking.

## Description

The Staff Machine Learning Engineer is a versatile role that drives a wide spectrum of applied ML research and development to overcome challenges on urban roads related to Perception and Object Tracking. The Tracking team is responsible for outputting a list of all the people, bikes, vehicles, and obstacles near the Cruise car, as well as a complete description of each agent., * Explore, prototype, validate, and iterate new algorithms and strategies.

 * Drive efforts to optimize, supervise and refine on-road performance for models in production.
 * Be considered one of the technical leaders of the department who guides current and future technology choices.
 * Have a deep understanding of the business and operational impact for different technology tradeoffs, and be able to balance effectively based on the company's need.
 * Enable other engineers on the team to be more effective through design and code that is easy to extend and contribute into.
 * Be capable of influencing others and building consensus even over contentious technical debates.