Senior ML Engineer – Autonomous Driving (Mapless, AI-First)

A well-funded European deep-tech company is building fully AI-driven, mapless autonomous driving technology in collaboration with leading OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers.

We are hiring experienced ML engineers who want to move beyond incremental ADAS and work on large-scale, AI-native autonomy systems deployed directly on vehicles.

What You’ll Work On
  • Learning-based scene understanding from raw multimodal sensor data
  • Online road topology & lane connectivity extraction
  • Multimodal transformers / graph neural networks for dynamic traffic modeling
  • End-to-end perception → prediction → planning architectures
  • Ensuring geometric & temporal consistency in real-world driving
  • Deployment of production-grade ML models to embedded vehicle systems
This is not simulation-only research. Models are trained at scale and validated directly on real vehicles.

What We’re Looking For
  • Strong ML fundamentals (deep learning, transformers, large-scale training)
  • Solid Python skills; C for production integration
  • Experience in one or more of:
    • Autonomous driving
    • Robotics
    • 3D computer vision
    • Multimodal learning
    • Sensor fusion
    • Learning-based planning
PhD is welcome but not required. Real-world deployment experience is highly valued.

Why Join?
  • Flat technical structure with real ownership
  • Strong compute infrastructure
  • Close collaboration with major automotive partners
  • Equity / stock options
  • Opportunity to shape next-generation autonomy from the ground up
Location: Germany (hybrid model available)