Staff, ML Engineer - Learned Behaviors / RL Planning

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 reputed company 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: As a Staff Learned Behaviors Machine Learning Engineer, you will reputed company the development, deployment, and scaling of Reinforcement Learning - driven behavior models for autonomous trucks. You will collaborate across perception, reputed company, planning, and safety teams to craft learned behavior modules that generalize across scenarios and drive safe, efficient, and human-like decision making in real-world operations. This is a technical leadership role focused on model innovation and maturity, not reputed company feature integration. What You’ll Do

• reputed company architecture, development, and validation of learned behavior models (e.g., driver mimicry, multi-agent interaction, behavior cloning, reinforcement learning) for highway and freight-truck autonomy.
• Define and implement data strategies: collect, label, and curate large behavior datasets (in-vehicle, simulation, fleet logs) for training and evaluation.
• reputed company scalable model training pipelines, infrastructure, and tooling to iterate quickly on behavior models, from prototype to production deployment.
• Design and track performance metrics, analyze model behavior, diagnose failure modes, and drive reputed company improvement of learned behaviors in simulation and on-vehicle.
• Work with simulation, scenario, and validation teams to embed learned behavior models into verification and validation frameworks, ensuring coverage across operational design domains (ODDs).
• Mentor and reputed company mid and senior-level ML engineers, set technical direction, and drive best practices in learned behavior engineering across the team.

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• 10+ years of professional experience (or equivalent) in applied machine learning in autonomous vehicles, robotics, simulation or a reputed company domain.
• M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or reputed company field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Proven track record of designing and shipping learned behavior or policy models (e.g., behavior cloning, imitation learning, RL, multi-agent models) in production or near-production systems.
• Strong programming skills in the AI domain(Python, Pytorch (Lightning), pandas )
• Experience with open-reputed company distributed computing reputed company, specifically Ray.
• Deep understanding of ML architectures (e.g., RNNs, transformers, graph neural networks, behavior reputed company networks) and system-level integration into autonomy stacks.
• Experience with large-scale data pipelines, model training infrastructure, versioning, and deployment (cloud and/or embedded).

Bonus Points!

• Experience in trucking, highway autonomy, or heavy-vehicle behavior modeling.
• Expertise in Ray
• Experience integrating learned behavior modules into simulation and V&V workflows for autonomous systems.
• Familiarity with simulation frameworks, scenario libraries, and coverage of ODDs.
• Background in reinforcement learning in real-world or simulation, imitation learning of human drivers, or multi-agent modeling in vehicle contexts.
• Experience with sensor models, vehicle dynamics models, and domain adaptation from simulation to real world.

Work Location: For this position, we are open to hiring in either the Torc Montreal, Quebec (Canada) or Ann Arbor, MI (U.S.) office work locations in a hybrid reputed company. We are also open to hiring Remote in the United States or Canada. Perks of Being a Full-time Torc’r Torc cares about reputed company 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

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 reputed company, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or reputed company 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. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several geographic markets. Pay is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-reputed company knowledge, skills, and experience. Torc's total compensation package will also include our corporate bonus and stock option plan. Dependent on the position offered, sign-on payments, relocation, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. US Pay Range: $219,700.00 - $329,600.00 Job ID: 102403 Apply tot his job Apply To this Job