Senior Machine Learning Engineer Generative Models

Applied Intuition Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive defense trucking construction mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure operating systems and autonomy. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers as well as the United States military and its allies trust the companys solutions to deliver physical intelligence. Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale California with offices in Washington D.C.; San Diego; Ft. Walton Beach Florida; Ann Arbor Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo. Learn more at .

We are an in-office company and our expectation is that full-time employees primarily work from their Applied Intuition office 5 days a week. However we also recognize the importance of flexibility and trust our employees to manage their schedules responsibly. This may include occasional remote work starting the day with morning meetings from home before heading to the office or leaving earlier when needed to accommodate family commitments. This in-office expectation does not apply to contractor positions

About the role and team

We are looking for senior machine learning engineers to advance the generative modeling technology behind Neural Simulation our state-of-the-art product for turning real-world driving data into high-fidelity photorealistic simulation environments. As part of this team you will push the boundaries of what the product can do with diffusion and video generation models creating realistic controllable sensor data augmenting real-world logs with new scenarios and making the product more useful for customers who rely on it to train and validate their autonomy systems. Your work will directly shape how the largest OEMs in the world develop the next generation of data-driven autonomous vehicles.

This role is ideal for engineers who thrive at the intersection of generative modeling computer vision and machine learning and who are excited to take a state-of-the-art product further by bringing the latest research into production and solving the hardest simulation gaps in Physical AI.

At Applied Intuition you will:

• Develop and advance diffusion and video generation models that power our Neural Simulation product bringing the latest research into production to improve realism controllability and scalability

• Push the limits of generative simulation for driving scenes including:

  • Controllable generation conditioned on scene layout camera pose actors and trajectories

  • Temporally consistent multi-camera video generation

  • Augmenting real-world logs with new scenarios actors and conditions such as weather and lighting

• Combine generative models with our neural reconstruction pipeline to improve fidelity and coverage of simulated scenes

• Scale training and inference of large generative models for production workloads

• Define and build evaluation metrics benchmarks and validation workflows that measure realism temporal consistency controllability and sim-to-real gap

• Work closely with customers to understand their pain points and implement technical solutions in the Neural Simulation product

• Collaborate closely with Infra Autonomy Research and other product teams to deliver end-to-end solutions

• Take ownership of critical technical components and influence architecture and product decisions

Were looking for someone who has:

• 5 years of experience developing and shipping ML or computer vision systems

• A minimum of a Bachelors degree in computer science physics robotics or equivalent

• Strong hands-on experience with diffusion models and video generation (e.g. latent and video diffusion models diffusion transformers)

• A solid foundation in generative modeling and deep learning including training and fine-tuning large models

• Proficiency in Python and PyTorch

• A proven ability to turn research ideas into robust production-quality software

• Strong problem-solving skills and comfort with ambiguity

Nice to have:

• Experience with learning-based 3D reconstruction such as 3D Gaussian Splatting NeRFs or feed-forward Gaussian Splatting

• A background in computer vision (e.g. SfM SLAM photogrammetry) and/or computer graphics (e.g. rendering rasterization ray tracing)

• A track record of shipping ML products with clearly defined evaluation metrics and benchmarks

• Experience in autonomous driving or robotics including working with multi-sensor data (camera LiDAR radar)

• Experience with 3D-aware or multi-view consistent generation or world models

• Experience with large-scale distributed training and inference optimization (e.g. distillation efficient sampling)

• Programming experience in C and/or CUDA

• Peer-reviewed research at conferences such as CVPR ICCV/ECCV NeurIPS ICLR ICML or SIGGRAPH

• A Masters degree or PhD in computer science physics robotics or related fields

Dont meet every single requirement If youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Applied Intuition is an equal opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor. Consequently the parties agree that as applicable they will abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a) 41 CFR 60-300.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and that these laws are incorporated herein by reference. These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or national origin. These regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin protected veteran status or disability. The parties also agree that as applicable they will abide by the requirements of Executive Order 13496 (29 CFR Part 471 Appendix A to Subpart A) relating to the notice of employee rights under federal labor laws.

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