Engineering Manager, ML Learned Behaviors
Torc Robotics
Software Engineering, Data Science, Other Engineering
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
USD 160,800-193k / year + Equity
Posted on Jul 22, 2025
About the Company
At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.
A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.
Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.
Meet the Team
Torc's Autonomy Applications software utilizes cutting-edge deep learning techniques to perceive the vehicle's environment, predict the movements of other vehicles, and execute accurate driving decisions. We are actively seeking a highly experienced engineering manager to lead our learned behaviors team. This is an exceptional opportunity for you to have a significant impact on the future of the autonomous vehicle industry by leveraging AI.
The Autonomy Applications division is hiring an Engineering Manager, ML Learned Behaviors who leads the Prediction and Planning Team.
As the leader of the team, you are responsible for providing an environment in which your team can deliver results, stay focused on cutting edge technology and grow both as individuals and as a team. You are embedded in a department with multiple machine learning teams, each focusing on different tasks along our robotics autonomous driving stack. You are taking over the people leadership tasks, as well as the project management tasks. You are representing your team outside of your group and make sure that your team delivers the behavior models that steer our truck! Operating at the intersection of engineering and project management exposes you to every detail that your team works on the one hand, and to the broader mission of our division, providing all components for our autonomous truck, on the other hand.
What you'll do:
- Taking the charge on the delivery of learned behavior algorithms.
- Collaborates with other management and teams as needed to meet goals, monitor team performance, and achieve objectives.
- Responsible for understanding the software or system technical domain of their assigned team.
- Accountable and responsible for career development and coaching of the team.
- Accountable and responsible for performance management of their team.
- Accountable and responsible for ensuring continuous performance feedback is delivered and compensation analysis in close collaboration with peer managers and People Operations.
- Responsive to others and able to effectively collaborate to meet established standards, compliance requirements, implementation, and service delivery schedules.
- Demonstrated functional knowledge of business area and demonstrates results of ongoing learning and professional development. Ability to effectively manage people and identify opportunities to develop staff experience and expertise.
- Scope of Influence: Focused within the team with focus on impacts to customer, technology quality and system cost.
What you’ll need to Succeed:
- Master's degree in computer science, data science, artificial intelligence or related field with 6+ years of professional experience or a PhD degree with 4+ years of experience
- Scientific understanding of robotics learned behaviors
- Experience with learning from or validating in simulated environments
- Mastery of Python and Pytorch, with the ability to transition research level code to production and deployment ready standards
- Project Management experience in autonomous driving projects
- 2+ years of people leadership experience
Bonus points!
- Experience with relevant NVIDIA libraries and frameworks, such as CUBLAS, CuDNN, and NPP
- Experience with Ray
Perks of Being a Full-time Torc’r
Torc cares about our team members and we strive to provide benefits and resources to support their health, work/life balance, and future. Our culture is collaborative, energetic, and team focused. Torc offers:
- A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees
- 401K plan with a 6% employer match
- Flexibility in schedule and generous paid vacation (available immediately after start date)
- Company-wide holiday office closures
- AD+D and Life Insurance
Hiring Range for Job Opening
US Pay Range
$160,800—$193,000 USD
At Torc, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We celebrate the uniqueness of our Torc’rs and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, or disabilities.
Even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications listed for this opportunity, we encourage you to apply.