Senior Machine Learning Engineer Road & Lane Detection

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