We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Work Type: Hybrid, In-Office 3 days/week
JOB DESCRIPTION:
The Perception team is looking for a machine learning engineer to develop cutting-edge Computer Vision modules to enhance the on-board perception of our robotic fleet, directly impacting safety and fleet efficiency. In this role, the ideal candidate will work on the full design and development cycle, including data collection, data set creation, machine learning models design and implementation.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop in-cabin Computer Vision ML modules for safety critical perception and monitoring applications
- Implement Perception model architectures and sophisticated training techniques
- Build high quality datasets leveraging all the inputs from our sensor stack and the overall large scale data we have collected
- Validate and optimize your solutions using real-world driving scenarios, directly contributing to the safety and reliability of our autonomous system
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and/or Computer Engineering
- 3+ years with a Modern Computer Vision and Machine Learning background, specifically on 3D reconstruction, detection, classification, semantic segmentation
- Experience with training and deploying Deep Learning models
- Background in C++ and/or python
- Excellent communication skills
- Creative mindset willing to challenge the norms
Bonus qualities:
Experience with any of the following:
- Self-driving industry experience
- Experience delivering ML model integration in latency-sensitive systems
- Experience with CUDA code
Salary Range:
- $115,000-130,000
- The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience
ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our Policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual’s age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.
Please beware of job seeker scams and see this important notice on our careers page for more information about our recruiting process.
Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
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