Director, Prediction And Ml Planning

Motional

Pittsburgh, United States
Base: $288,000 - $396,000 usd; bonus/equity: may i...
On-site
5+ years managing engineering teams
Deep expertise in imitation learning
Advanced reinforcement learning knowledge
Motional is seeking a visionary leader to direct the intersection of intent forecasting and ego-vehicle decision-making for Level 4 driverless vehicles

Job Summary

  • Motional is seeking a visionary leader to direct the intersection of intent forecasting and ego-vehicle decision-making for Level 4 driverless vehicles.
  • The role requires establishing a technical roadmap that transitions the stack towards unified Large Driving Models performing joint prediction and planning.
  • Candidates are expected to publish stellar work in top-tier conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, and NeurIPS while mentoring world-class AI teams.

Matching Summary

Motional is seeking a visionary leader to direct the intersection of intent forecasting and ego-vehicle decision-making for Level 4 driverless vehicles.

Salary

Base: $288,000 - $396,000 USD; Bonus/Equity: May include additional forms of compensation such as bonus or company equity; Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401k match, health saving accounts, life insurance, pet insurance

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 5+ years managing engineering teams
  • Deep expertise in Imitation Learning
  • Advanced Reinforcement Learning knowledge
  • Experience with unified trajectory forecasting
  • Vision-Language-Action model familiarity

Nice-to-have

  • Publication record at CVPR or NeurIPS
  • Experience scaling LLMs to production
  • Building large-scale data pipelines
  • Strong research community footprint

Key Requirements

  • M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science or Robotics
  • 3+ years managing multiple sub-teams in autonomous systems
  • Proven track record of sustainable organizational scaling

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