Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Road & Lane Detection
Torc Robotics
Software Engineering, Data Science
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Posted on Sep 16, 2025
Meet the Team
At Torc Robotics, we're on a mission to revolutionize freight movement through safe, efficient, and reliable autonomous driving technology. Backed by Daimler Truck, we are industry leaders in Level 4 autonomous vehicle systems, with decades of innovation and a clear path to commercialization. Join our growing Model Development team and directly contribute to our world-class machine learning systems for Road & Lane detection– a critical function in enabling AV perception and path planning.
We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our Road & Lane Detection team focused on developing robust models that predict static and semi-static road features (lanes, intersections, boundaries, driveable space, etc). You will be responsible for designing and implementing state-of-the-art deep learning models that enable our autonomous vehicles to understand and anticipate road structures in diverse environments.
This is a hands-on applied research and development role, with direct impact on Torc’s core autonomy stack.
What You’ll Do
- Design, train, and deploy deep learning models for road and lane topology prediction, including drivable space, lane boundaries, and intersection structures.
- Build and optimize neural network architectures that leverage multi-modal sensor data (camera, LiDAR, radar) and SD/HD map context.
- Collaborate with teams across perception, mapping, planning, and systems integration to ensure seamless performance in real-world autonomous driving.
- Lead model ablation studies, error analysis, and performance validation using large-scale simulation and real-world datasets.
- Develop tooling and workflows to automate training, experimentation, and evaluation of ML models.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical leadership within the ML modeling group.
What You’ll Need to Succeed
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, artificial intelligence or related field with 6+ years of professional experience or a master's degree with 4+ years of experience
- Hands on experience with segmentation tasks like lane prediction, free space segmentation, etc.
- State of the Art AV experience with multi-sensor data, especially in perception systems for autonomous vehicles or robotics.
- Mastery of Python and PyTorch, with the ability to transition research level code to production and deployment ready standards
- Proficiency in Python, and familiarity with modern ML Ops tools and GPU-based training.
- Prior experience in autonomous driving, robotics, or similar safety-critical domains.
- Experience with LiDAR, radar, or 3D spatial data processing.
- Knowledge of performance metrics for perception and prediction tasks (IoU, FDE, ADE, mAP).
Bonus Points
- PhD in machine learning or data science
- Proficient in writing CUDA kernels and developing custom PyTorch operations.
- Experience with relevant NVIDIA libraries and frameworks, such as CUBLAS, CuDNN, and NPP
- Proficiency with Ray
- Publications or contributions to open-source ML projects.
- C++ skills or experience integrating ML into production autonomy systems.
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)
- AD+D and Life Insurance