Senior Software Engineer - New AI Initiatives

Torc Robotics develops software for autonomous trucks and autonomous vehicle technology. The Senior Software Engineer will build AI development tooling, develop machine learning workflows and models, and drive emerging technologies from exploration through production while collaborating with stakeholders and teams across the organization.

Responsibilities

• You will play a key role building the foundation of Torc's AI development tooling
• Independently develop data science models or algorithms using disciplined software development processes, making recommendations for developing new code or re-using existing code, enforcing version control, and maintaining documentation of created applications
• Operate with Data Ops to define and implement ingestion, data preparation, curation, and governance of large, multi-faceted data sets supporting analytics models and workflows
• Organize and lead projects, serving as project lead guiding less experienced team members in multiple facets of project execution
• Empower users with key insights, supporting visualization and data accessibility in a customer centric manner
• Develop guidelines and standards for analytics and machine learning models, their deployment, and associated processes
• Communicate and collaborate within the team and participate with the team’s interfaces to the rest of the organization

Benefits

• A bonus component
• Stock options
• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees
• 401K plan with a 6% employer match
• Flexibility in schedule
• Generous paid vacation (available immediately after start date)
• AD+D insurance
• Life insurance

Company

• Autonomous self-driving truck software for the freight industry
• Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
• http://torc.ai/
• Founded in 2005
• 501-1000 employees

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or related technical field plus demonstrates competences and technical proficiencies typically acquired through 6+ years of experience OR
• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or related technical field plus demonstrates competences and technical proficiencies typically acquired through 3+ years of experience
• Adventurous spirit where you can work on topics at the frontier and drive exploration
• Rigorous disposition: you will have to pass judgement on what is and what is not practical for Torc to implement at scale
• You will need to communicate your outcomes and progress to other teams so they can take your findings and reliably implement them
• You will need resilience, you must be comfortable with working on a project for a month that may not reach production
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or related technical field plus demonstrates competences and technical proficiencies typically acquired through 6+ years of experience OR;
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or related technical field plus demonstrates competences and technical proficiencies typically acquired through 3+ years of experience.

Required skills

• Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Master's Degree, Technical Proficiencies

Experience

• 3+ years