Sr Software Engineer - Planning and Control (Level 4 Autonomous Vehicle Startup)
10 Strathearn Road Toronto, ON M6C 1R3
Job Description
We're recruiting a Software Engineer (Int to Senior) for the Planning & Controls Team for a Silicon Valley-based Autonomous Vehicles tech company that's opened a new product development Toronto site. If you're a team lead, manager or director in the robotics or autonomous vehicle industry, check this opportunity out as it's a unique chance to join an AV startup that is about to take off and is committed to growing their Toronto site. Oh and they have real and major customers in production.
Highlights:
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Real opportunity to commercialize AV - they solve real problems and have real customers, contracts, and revenues with some of the biggest global enterprises.
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Industry-leading team in robotics and AI that have worked successfully together in a distributed team model.
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Become one of the key Toronto-based leaders & help establish the company as a leader in the Toronto AV community.
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Collaborate with leading research teams @ U of Waterloo and U of Toronto.
Responsibilities:
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Path & motion planning and decision making algorithm development
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Planning stack for defining the behaviour of the self driving vehicle
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Traffic participant behavior prediction around the AV
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Develop Deep Learning architectures
Qualifications:
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Masters or Ph.D. degree in CS, Robotics or related field
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Neural network framework experience (e.g., Tensorflow, Caffe & Torch)
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Strong C++ development experience
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Motion planning experience (e.g., LSTMs, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Deep Q-learning, etc)
Bonus Points:
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Robotic system software development
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ML for control or planning problems (e.g. Imitation Learning, Behavior Prediction, Reinforcement Learning)
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Experience working with real-time systems, large-scale scalable software architectures, and large datasets
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Solid technical foundation in CPU and GPU architectures, containers and numeric libraries
Apply today or contact Brandon Shim-Ping, Director of Talent, at brandon AT grossmandorland DOT com to learn more.
About gdR
Founded in 2007, gdR’s mission is to grow the leadership capacity and capabilities of people and companies in the Canadian tech ecosystem through executive search, team recruiting and leadership development. We’re actively involved in the community by creating opportunities for people to connect and learn from one another e.g. Canadian Tech at Scale (in partnership with Shopify & Uber ATG), which brings 200+ engineering leaders together. gdR values inclusion in Canada’s tech ecosystem and partners with employers that provide equal opportunities for individuals from diverse groups. If you’re interested in moving to Canada, although we can’t sponsor you, we have put together resources to help you with your journey. Follow gdR on LinkedIn and Twitter updates on new roles in tech.Meet Your Recruiter
Brandon Shim-Ping
Director, Talent
Brandon Shim-Ping joined the gdR team in 2013 and leads executive and IC searches in engineering, data science and security.